Royalty Management Software

The Royalty Management Lifecycle includes 4 phases.

Royalty Calculation & Royalty Records: Know the Lifecycle

by David Marlin | July 24, 2024

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.

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Streamlining Royalty Management: Insights from the Booksmarts Podcast

by David Marlin | July 15, 2023

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.

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Don’t Get Hacked – Protect Your Royalties

by David Marlin | November 9, 2022

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.

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Four Big Business Impacts Of Poor Royalty Management

by David Marlin | October 22, 2021

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 […]

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Online Courses: Royalty Management for Instructors and Professors

by David Marlin | April 10, 2015

David MarlinDavid 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 […]

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Consolidating Sales Data: Phase III of the Royalty Management Life Cycle™ Model

by David Marlin | October 31, 2014

Do you have trouble managing all your sales data? Keeping track of all the files received each month from each source Combining those files into a single sales database Managing currency conversions Reporting and analyzing your sales Using those sales to calculate royalties This article, a part of our Royalty Management Life Cycle™ series, shows […]

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Choosing the Right Royalty Software: Royalty Accounting

by David Marlin | November 19, 2010

As I mentioned in Part 1, publishing is a deceptively complex business. I touched on a few of the general considerations in choosing a royalty software solution for your company in Part 1, from general function areas to investigate, to how to vet a royalty software manufacturer. This article will focus specifically on the royalty […]

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Choosing the Right Royalty Accounting Software Solution for Your Company – Part 1

by David Marlin | November 16, 2010

  Publishing is a deceptively complex business, requiring the ability to track book production, royalties, returns, multiple warehouses, multiple sales channels, etc. With so many time-consuming administrative tasks, the day-to-day business of publishing can become an exercise in data management, rather than an endeavor to find the most marketable books and put them into print. […]

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