Rights Management

Publishing is a global business so we provide integrated tools to help you keep track of the global aspects of your business, the rights you sold or bought.

• Receive notifications of rights related events such as contract expiry
• Create reports of titles sold to specific territories or trading partners
• Include rights information in rights sheets and other marketing materials
• Automatically feed rights data to Frankfurt Rights, Publishers Licencing Society, Copyright Clearing and others.

Contacts

Convenient access to information on all of your contacts, authors, free-lancers, trading partners, reviewers, buyers and others, all available whenever you need it. Contacts are integrated with bibliographic data, foreign rights management and all other modules.

• Allows for easy updates of your bibliographic data with biographies, professional associations, and many other interesting facts that can boost the standing of your author and the sales of your books.
• Greatly enhances consistency and accuracy by allowing you to update information for a contributor across all their titles in one go.
• Spreadsheet import and export is of course also possible.

Proposals

Manage your pipeline of potential new titles and assess their potential as profitable products.

• Collaboratively create essential content plus profit and loss forecasts
• Generate report to feed into discussions leading up to approval or rejection of the product.
• On approval all relevant data flows directly into a newly created bibliographic record ready to be enriched for release to the market ahead of release

Email Alerting

Create automated email campaigns driven by publishing specific details such as publication date or subject area and keep your business partners informed about your catalogue and forthcoming titles.

• Create recipient lists to receive email about titles in specific subject areas or catagories
• Use easy date ranges to deliver information about titles publishing in the coming weeks, months, quarter.
• Email content automatically includes the latest data and images from your BooksoniX application

Contracts

A collaborative tool to manage and record the contract negotiation process and store the finalised contract alongside the bibliographic record for future reference. Where the royalties module is also in use, the royalty rules to be used are automatically taken from the contract.

• Flexible approvals process to ensure all team members are fully engaged in the process
• On acceptance, all relevant information flows through to a stub bibliographic record

Bibliographic data management

The easy to use, intuitive user-interface helps you add all the necessary data and guides you to the optimal result. BooksoniX allows you to set up templates that fill in many of the mundane fields so that you can concentrate on the bits that make your product stand out.

• Single repository for your bibliographic metadata
• Create templates for creating new titles
• Automatic mapping of Thema codes
• Data coaching to help you meet minimum and gold standards for all your data recipients.
• Say goodbye to keeping track of shared spreadsheets.

“The file looks great! Which isn’t surprising – we always get good files from BooksoniX.”
Product Data Manager, Barnes & Noble

Data dissemination

Automatically send metadata, cover images and ebook files to your business partners and effortlessly keep them informed of any updates, with BooksoniX working in the background to transform your data to suit each recipient.

• No more juggling file formats, spreadsheets or images
• Images automatically resized and renamed before delivery
• Each feed is covered by a detailed report outlining any issues in your data that may need your attention.
• Unlimited feeds, all managed and maintained by the BooksoniX support team

“I can really vouch that the BooksoniX team do one of the best jobs I’ve seen for managing ONIX”
Salma Yaqubi, Data Manager, Independent Publishers Group, USA

Marketing materials

Effortlessly create AI sheets, tip sheets, press releases, catalogues, order forms, and more, direct from your data.

• Completely customisable templates to match your house styling
• Generated documents will always reflect your most up to date information
• Automatically adjust styling and information per imprint, category, market etc.
• Allow your team to generate marketing materials with the most up to date information, wherever they are

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Workflow & production management

Never again miss a deadline because it slipped your mind. Automated reminders when tasks are due and tools to highlight the bottlenecks in your planning.

• BooksoniX alerts you when deadlines are overrunning and you are in danger of not publishing your book on time
• Include all your staff and free-lancers in the production schedules
• Use default templates and timings specific to your different product types
• Stop tripping each other up in shared spreadsheets by using a single unified platform, integrated with your title management

Royalties

Set up royalty rules, import sales data then automatically calculate royalty liabilities, generate and email statements and use the reports to set up bank payments.

• Import sales figures and calculate the royalties owed to your authors
• Automatically generate and email statements to your authors and receive a full sending report
• Very flexible settings to cover different contract types