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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.
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 consumes valuable resources and represents uncomfortable risk.
California-based Dragonblade Publishing is a boutique publisher specializing in historical romance. Here, Director of Operations Shawn Morrison explains the background and benefits of Dragonblade’s partnership with MetaComet Systems.
About Trafalgar Square Vermont-based Trafalgar Square Books was founded in the early 1970s, and has grown into one of the world’s most respected specialists in books on horses and equestrian sport. Since the early 1990s it has also become known for its craft books in...
Good royalty management makes publishers leaner, faster and safer. Here’s how MetaComet® Systems’ solutions sharpened one top publisher’s practices For some publishers, royalty management can be a chore—a process that soaks up time and frustrates publishers...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
The Challenge: Soho Press is a boutique publisher, dedicated to publishing as an art. Since 1987, Soho’s mission has been to “publish good books well….whatever is interesting, moving and well written,” earning both mainstream success and a cult following, for its...
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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