The productAuthors
Your authors stop writing to ask how it is going.
Each author signs in and sees their sales, their statements and their contract without having to ask for them. What is now twenty emails asking how the book is doing becomes a tab, and the relationship stops being spent on admin.
Contents
01What is in it
- The author's dashboard
- Their books, their sales by channel and their statements in detail. Your brand, your domain: it is your publishing house, not ours.
- Inbox
- Conversations with each author in one place, with their history, rather than spread across three mailboxes and a phone.
- Author website
- One site per author, published under your domain, which they maintain themselves without going through you.
- Training and community
- Courses, materials and a shared space. Keeping an author costs considerably less than finding the next one.
- Writing tools
- Bio, blurb, press kit and brand copy, assisted and in the author's voice, not a model's.
- Copies
- Complimentary and contractual copies, counted: how many they are owed and how many they have already had.
The trade
02The vocabulary
- Royalty statement
- The account rendered to the author each period: what sold, at what rate, what is owed and what is being paid.
- Advance
- Money paid up front against future royalties. Until it is earned out, royalties are set against it.
- Complimentary copies
- The copies the contract grants the author free of charge. Having them counted avoids the awkward conversation two years from now.
- Rights granted
- Exactly what you acquired: formats, territories and term. What was not granted is not yours to sell.
More areas
03The other six areas
Selection
Submission forms with your branding, analysis of the complete manuscript, reading reports, work plans for the author, and the editorial brain that learns from your decisions.
Catalogue
Book records, ISBN, Thema subjects, ONIX records and metadata feeds, series, typeset catalogues, and the recommendation widget for your site.
Sales and rights
Sales by channel with their terms and returns, contracts with their royalty tiers, statements that calculate themselves, and the annual report.
Production and warehouse
Print runs, printers and unit costs, delivery notes, stock by warehouse, author copies and book fairs.
Publicity
Press and clippings, media, libraries, bookshops, influencers and the referral programme, each with its own history.
The house
Your branding on everything that goes out, team and permissions, integrations, document templates, plan and billing.
Fourteen days to test it with your own books.
Upload a manuscript and let it read. Import twenty books. Produce a royalty statement. That will tell you.
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