2011 Industry Overview

The leading royalty software solutions for publishers with revenue of $50M+ are:

Klopotek Contracts, Rights and Royalties

Strengths: Powerful solution that covers acquistions, rights and royalties. Expandable. Large customer base

Advance Rights and Royalties

Strengths: Work process controls and software customization options

Royalty Tracker by MetaComet

Strengths: Rapid implementations and easy to use software

Alliant by Real Software

Strengths: Targets companies with revenues of 100M+

VirtuSales

Strengths: New royalty software solution

Royalty Software Solutions for Medium Sized Publishers

Acumen Book by Cyberwolf

Easy Royalties

Royalty Tracker (hosted) by Metacomet

Elan Rights and Royalties by Media Services Group

Klopotek Contracts, Rights and Royalties (hosted)

Bradbury Phillips

Royalty Software Solutions for Small Publishers (costing less than $200)

AnyBook

Strengths: Handles more complex royalty contracts than Publishers Assistant
Website: www.ronwatters.com/RonSoft.htm

Publishers Assistant

Strengths: Free, large client base of small publishers
Website: www.pubassist.com 

DashBook

Strengths: New modern solution for small publishers

That’s Permissions

That’s Rights (aka Easy Royalties) released a new add-on module called That’s Permissions. This module allows publishers to track the permissions they have granted to others and the permissions that they received.

A permission might cover the use of an illustration, a graph or an extract from another book. With this product a publisher can access the status of  all permissions they requested and obtained for each title published.

McGraw-Hill Education selects Advance Rights & Royalties

Publishing Technology welcomes McGraw-Hill Education, the seventh largest publisher in the world, as our newest client. The global provider of educational materials, information and solutions will be installing the rights, royalties and permissions modules from Publishing Technology’s recently released suite of applications, advance.

By replacing several existing applications with a single, integrated system, McGraw-Hill will now have a holistic view of their rights, royalties and permissions information across the entire group. The new system will provide strong controls with greater flexibility enabling business process improvement, detailed budgeting and greater forecasting capabilities.

The advance suite intertwines Publishing Technology’s more than 30 years of industry expertise with cutting edge technology to create applications with unmatched flexibility and built-in workflow management controls specifically designed for content providers. The end users benefit from dashboards, user-level personalization, an intuitive user interface, extensive workflow management tools, and powerful analytic tools; while IT and Operations areas benefit from accelerated development, process automation and simplified maintenance.

“We are very pleased to be working with such an innovative and established publisher. advance™was developed specifically to address the continuously changing business environment by providing greater adaptability and control to management while creating greater freedoms and personalization for users. It is exciting for us to see that the thought and work that went into this application is being recognized by some of the industry’s best,” commented Randy Petway, Executive Vice President, Strategy & Business Development.

Eeerdmans purchases Elan Rights and Royalties

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, a religious publisher based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has agreed to upgrade their CISPUB system to Media Services Group’s cloud-version of Élan Book. This upgrade will provide Eerdmans with licenses of Élan Book, Circ, CRM, Rights and Royalties (RR), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Analytics (excel-based data analysis) and an integrated website optimized for ecommerce and customer web self-service. Eerdmans has been a CISPUB customer since 2003.

Founded in 1911, Eerdmans is well known for their biblical and theological reference publications and religious titles. They also publish works on Philosophy, Political Science, Ethics and related topics.

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