Tools and Services

The feature allows websites to give readers a variety of ways to access content—such as watching ads, making a micropayment, and more.

GlobeScribe is an AI-powered service that translates fiction from English into multiple languages for a flat rate of $100 per language.

An enthusiastic user explains the life-changing power of finding the right to-do app, making professional and personal task management a breeze.

Consolidating documents, tasks, decisions, and communication into this powerful app might dramatically simplify your writing project.

The advance review copy service, used primarily by traditional publishers, is launching a consumer marketing website.

BeRead is headed up by two people with backgrounds in the publishing industry. Both have worked in marketing positions for the big houses.

The platform enables Substack writers who want to collaborate on creating themed collected writings in a more polished print or ebook form.

SXSW has partnered with Advantage Media, a hybrid publishing company, to establish SXSW Books. Distribution is through Ingram’s Two River.

This online tool allows anyone to see all of the books published by a single publisher in a specific reserved block of ISBNs.

Sekai is an emerging platform that allows storytellers to co-create alongside other people using generative AI.

Launched in 2010, Unbound is one of the very few publishers that uses a crowdfunding model for every title published.

Former Abrams CEO Michael Jacobs and author Sheridan Hay have opened up a consulting/coaching firm.

The Apple and Android app can bring realistic narration to any book, article, PDF, newsletter, or text that you import.

National Book Network has about 150 clients, and all have been given a chance to move to Simon & Schuster’s distribution services.

Smashing is a new free app meant to help people who are “drowning” in content and need help navigating the media

And whether there’s risk of AI training on your material.

POD has an important role to fulfill in the publishing industry, and eventually your book is likely to be printed using it.

The database helps film- and TV-industry professionals find books available for screen adaptation.

To draw interest, the Black List will organize an annual award—the Unpublished Novel Award—in seven fiction genres, open to paying members.

Perfect Bound is a company that helps match small publishers with printers to create faster and cheaper printing runs.

Who pays for the service and who decides how to incorporate feedback?

Shimmr is an automated book advertising service based in the UK; Pix is a chatbot that offers book recommendations.

WorkingLit is a cloud-based system that helps small publishers streamline their product databases, manage orders, and more.

Sudowrite’s James Yu addresses concerns and best use cases.

If you have an active membership at Publishers Marketplace, you can now use AI to help fuel your search for the right agent for your next book.