Royalty Management Software
Publishing Industry Solutions | Software for Business
In an era of rapid transformation, the book publishing industry is under more pressure than ever to modernize, streamline operations, and do more with fewer resources. Choosing the right software makes a huge difference for any publishing company’s success.
How Do Royalties Work? Our Guide to Agreements & Payments
A guide that explains how royalties work, demystifies the underlying agreements, and offers insights into automating payments.
Case Study: Royalty Tracker® and Sales Aggregator Scale Up Painlessly
The largest private audiobook production company in the US radically upgraded its royalty management process using MetaComet® software. By adopting Royalty Tracker® and Sales Aggregator, John Marshall Media and Lantern Audio Distribution saved multiple days of work per quarter, eliminated errors in calculations, and streamlined the payment process.
Publishing Industry Solutions for Royalty Management Chaos
A November 21 article from The Bookseller reports on the publishing industry’s “hidden epidemic” of chaotic royalty management, payments, and communication. (Heloise Wood, “Royalties survey sparks calls for change as Society of Authors reveals ‘increased reliance on hardship grants.’”)
Webinar: Royalty Automation for University Presses
In this video we look at exactly how automated royalty management systems work, walking through real-world royalty processing scenarios. We demonstrate how to use an automated system to record contract terms, process disparate sales files, perform calculations, and generate and transmit royalty statements, reports, and payment files. We also review the implementation process and discuss best practices for a smooth and painless transition to automation.
Royalty Management Services: 3 Best Practices
Royalty management requires impeccable accounting to ensure compliance and internal and external auditability and to maintain positive relationships with partners. This means devoting significant human and technical resources to the process. Failure to properly manage royalties or rights can lead to erroneous payments, broken trust from clients, and negative impact on your bottom line.
Royalty Calculation & Royalty Records: Know the 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 has created the Royalty Management Lifecycle™ model.
Streamlining Royalty Management: Insights from the Booksmarts Podcast
MetaComet President David Marlin was recently a guest on the Booksmarts Podcast where he discussed Royalty Management and Company Security with host Joshua Tallent. Joshua is an acclaimed teacher and guide on the role of data in publishing, and a vocal advocate for high quality book metadata.
Don’t Get Hacked – Protect Your Royalties
The transition to digital methods in publishing in the last couple decades has delivered some amazing efficiencies and improvements – but it has raised a few challenges too. Looming large among these is the issue of security and the need to protect the countless pieces of information that are stored in the systems we now use daily.
Four Big Business Impacts Of Poor Royalty Management
When seeking support with royalty management, publishers have a lot of choice – but some solutions are better than others. Here are just some of the key reasons to choose MetaComet over the competition. Everyone in publishing has first or second hand horror stories to tell—of bad decisions and simple mistakes that caused serious disruption […]