Royalty and Rights Software for Smaller Publishers
The royalty and rights software listed here will meet the needs of smaller publishers that do not require the extensive functionality requested by larger publishers.
Prices for solutions in this section start range from about $500 to $50,000 USD with most costing $25,000 or more for a stand-alone solution and about $1000 a month for a hosted solution.
Easy Royalties is an affordable stand-alone royalty solution for book publishers with complex royalty contracts. Pricing starts at $500 USD.
Bradbury Phillips, Media Services, Metacomet, Klopotek, Publishing Technology and Virtusales offer hosted solutions where you access the software via the internet. No purchase of hardware is required.
Bradbury Phillips Rights and Royalties software has the largest client base of book publishers using stand alone (non-ERP integrated) software.
ACUMEN Book's royalty solution includes a complete ERP solution for book publishers. Use as many of the modules as you want (accounting, inventory, sales, royalties, job costing, royalties, etc.)
Bradbury Phillips, Easy Royalties, Musicalc, That's Rights, Trilogy, Virtualsales and Vista have offices in the United Kingdom. We recommend UK based publishers use software from companies with offices in the United Kingdom.
Acumen
Cyberwolf's ACUMEN Book product offers an integrated royalty functionality designed to meet the needs of publishers with sales of $1M thru $30M.
Used by over 180 publishers in North America.
In 2007 Acumen released an optional Rights Management and Marketing Module to facilitate the marketing of intellectual property rights.
For the price of a typical royalty solution you get a complete ERP solution. Some presses purchase ACUMEN software with the intention of just using its royalty module and find themselves using other modules, such as job costing, title P&L and ONIX title information database, that are included with the ACUMEN Book solution.
Website: www.acumenbook.com
Bradbury Phillips
Bradbury Phillips International is the publisher of the Bradbury Phillips Rights Management, Permissions, Agents' Accounts and Authors' Royalties software, leading the field the past 20 years, and in use at over 250 sites in the UK and North America.
Bradbury Phillips software is the most widely used stand alone rights and royalties solution used by publishers. Price is based on the number of titles managed. Available as a stand-alone and hosted solution.
Website: www.bradburyphillips.com
Easy Royalties
Easy Royalties is an affordable standalone royalty
solution for publishers with complex royalty contracts. You can import authors, titles, contracts and sales.
Prices range from $500 for 50 titles (paper and hardcover count as one title) to $10,000 USD for unlimited titles. A free 30 day demo version is available from their website.
Website: www.easyroyaltiesusa.com
Media Services' Élan Rights And Royalties
The Élan Rights and Royalties Module hosted ASP solution is designed for ease of use and easy integration with standalone accounting and ERP solutions, in addition to being offered as an upgrade to Media Services' Bookworks, Cats Pajamas and CisPub book publishing software clients.
Their hosted service is perhaps the most robust of the hosted solutions listed in this section as they utilize servers that mirror your data accross three world class hosting centers located in the USA and the UK.
As an ASP solution this software solution only internet access is required to access the software. Prices start at $900/month for a hosted solution and $25,000 for standalone software.
Musicalc
Musicalc ® is the royalty accounting software package that is used by more independent Record and Music Publishing companies all over the world than any other.
Musicalc Systems Limited was formed in 1982 to develop and market PC based software for the Music Industry. The software design is based on an in-depth knowledge of how the Industry works with the benefit of live, in-house, record and publishing companies and has been the market leader for more than 22 years.
Website: www.musicalc.com
That's Rights
That's Rights! rights management software manages your intellectual properties, from creation or acquisition through submission, licensing, permissions, co-editions and royalty statements. Generate day-to-day tracking reports, business reports, mailing lists, client summaries, title reports, and more. Import and export data for use with other systems or for exchanging information with other departments or associates.
That's Rights! is a desktop application that helps you manage and drive your rights activities. Designed primarily for publishers, That's Rights! is ideal for anyone who buys OR sells translation or subsidiary rights around the globe.
Website: www.thatsrights.com
Trilogy Group
Title Management solution offers powerful rights and royalties solutions to satisfy the most demanding contract requirements. The system allows full control of the contract process, including the set up of all rights details, which automatically control the subsequent set up of all the royalty rules. For Publishers selling rights, a complete rights management system includes the control of submissions, options and bids.
It tracks the receipt of rights and royalty receipts, and has a full integration to both sales and purchase ledgers for a number of optional financial systems, including Great Plains and Navision.
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Publishing Technology
The rights and royalties software offers publishers a .NET solution that is highly customizable and comes with powerful work process controls. The solution combines the same high end features as those enjoyed by major publishing houses for capturing, maintaining royalty data, tracking rights sales and ensuring authors are paid accurately on time and according to contract. By using a hosted environment, publishers can focus more time on the business of publishing, leaving information technology activities to Publishing Technology experts.
Website: www.publishingtechnology.com
Software Overview
Acumen - Royalties and rights for book publishers. 180+ clients.
Bradbury Phillips - Royalties and rights for book publishers and literary agents. 250+ clients.
Easy Royalties- Affordable royalty software. Prices start at $500.
Klopotek - Hosted royalty software
Media Services - Hosted royalties and rights solution.
Musicalc - Royalties for music publishers. Over 190 clients.
That's Rights - Affordable rights and permission management.
Trilogy Group - Royalties and rights for book publishers. Over 60 clients. For publishers with sales of $5M+.
Publishing Technology- Royalties and rights for book publishers of all sizes. Over 100 clients. Hosted solution for smaller publishers.