Welcome Coach House and ECW! With your arrival, auctions are more than halfway done. In honour of this momentous occasion, we offer the PubFight Half-way Through Pre-season Meaningless Awards presentation. We know it’s an honour just to be nominated…
Biggest Bid for a Single Title
$177,500—Simon and Schuster (extenuating circumstances but, frankly, probably still worth it)
Speediest Speed Round You Ever Did See
1 hour for 80 titles—Scholastic (whew)
Highest Average Advance
$19,125—YPC (some drinks, some fun, some $$)
Best Publishing House Name (So Far)
Gobias Industries—Coach House/ECW (totally subjective. I know, I know—but have you not seen Arrested Development?! C’mon!)
YPC Scholastic Simon and Schuster Coach House/ECW Number of Publishing Houses 8 8 9 7 Length of Auction (hours) 3+ 1 4 3 Average Titles Sold Per Minute 0.4 1.3 (!) 0.4 0.4 Highest Advance (Non-Fiction) $75,000 $70,000 $69,000 $45,000 Highest Advance (Fiction) $50,000 (three way tie) $40,000 (two way tie) $39,500 $57,500 Highest Advance (Juvenile) — $65,000 $177,500 $45,000
