David Marlin is the President and Co-Founder of MetaComet® Systems, a prominent provider of royalty automation tools. Since founding the company in 2000, David has spearheaded the development of a suite of best-in-class systems that effectively facilitate royalty processes for nearly 200 publishers. David has also served as the chair for The Book Industry Study Group’s Rights Committee and Digital Sales Committee.
Before establishing MetaComet Systems, David served as a technology consultant for renowned publishers, collaborating with notable companies such as Random House, Penguin, HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck, Macmillan, Scholastic, Time Warner, and many others. David holds both an MBA and a BA from Columbia University in New York.
Book Publishing Royalties Made Easy
Many MetaComet customers are running established publishing houses with years or decades of experience managing book publishing royalties. But others are just getting started. If you are new to the business, you may have some questions. Fortunately, the royalty experts at MetaComet have answers.
4 Tips for Simplifying Royalty Management
4 Tips for Simplifying Royalty Management You likely did not enter your business because of your love for royalty management. Yet this aspect of your operations often requires attention disproportionate to its importance in the production of quality books. It...
Royalty Calculation & Royalty Records: Know the Lifecycle
Royalty Calculation and the Royalty Management Lifecycle™ Royalty records management might be the most confusing part of your business. Mistakes here can cost you money and damage your recipient relationships. To clarify this intimidating process, the MetaComet® team...
3 Valuable Benefits Publishers with 100+ Titles Get When they Automate Their Royalties
3 Valuable Benefits Publishers with 100+ Titles Get When they Automate Their Royalties (This article originally appeared on the Audio Publisher Association’s Blog) Manual royalty management is no publisher’s idea of fun. Once your title list reaches about 100 titles,...
Royalty Accounting 101: Do You Really Know How Royalties Impact Your Business?
An Introduction to Royalty Accounting MetaComet’s David Marlin shares advice for simplifying the royalty accounting process. This article initially appeared on the Independent Publishers Guild's website. Sales coming in. Contract clauses invoked. Royalties...
Online Courses: Royalty Management for Instructors and Professors
As education continues to move online, the compensation scheme for instructors and professors moves along with it. It is now easier than ever to allocate revenues directly to professors and their courses, which provides an opportunity for royalty-based payments....
Rights Management and Royalty Management Services: 3 Best Practices
Rights and Royalty Management Best Practices What Is Royalty Management? Companies often license content, trademarks or other intellectual property (IP) from a third party in order to create and sell new products. The compensation for the use of that IP frequently...
Royalty Accounting Systems – An Introduction
The system of paying royalties is a method of sharing the costs and sharing the profits of marketing something. Royalties are paid to property owners for minerals beneath their land, inventors, songwriters, musicians, and authors. A farmer who learns that there is oil...
Royalty Processing and Royalty Accounting – Best Practices
Publishing is an old activity - dating back nearly 6 centuries - and it's existed as a business for nearly as long. But while Johannes Gutenberg's innovations led to profound changes for society in general, he himself was financially unsuccessful, and he certainly...
Silver Moon Press Case Study
The Challenge: Silver Moon Press is a growing publisher for the school and library markets. They used Excel to track sales of each title and to generate and print invoices. At the end of each six-month royalty period, they tallied everything up all over again. The...
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