Via Project Publish, Touchstone Books will be the first major publisher to put our market-based method for evaluating media content to the test. In October, a team of editors, including Touchstone publisher Mark Gompertz, will evaluate the 50 top scoring book proposals on Media Predict. They’ll select five book proposals as Project Publish finalists, and eventually one grand prize winner.
The finalists will be announced the week of September 17, 2007. Trading in the five proposals will continue until October 9, when the winning proposal will be announced.
All proposals that appear on the Media Predict site between our launch and the announcement of finalists in September will be eligible for Project Publish. In the coming months, we’ll add new submissions to the site on a regular basis. Submissions for Project Publish will come from both the general public as well as from literary agencies.
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