RoyaltyShare’s Digital Advantage™ for eBooks builds upon the company’s years of experience serving record labels and distributors in the music industry. In use for several years by hundreds of record labels processing billions of music download, streaming transactions, and press-on-demand transactions worldwide, the Digital Advantage platform is now available for book publishers to meet the needs of the emerging market for eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, and print-on-demand.
Book publishers now have a proven solution for dealing with large, complex digital revenue streams from dozens of eBook retailers, delivering substantial cost savings while increasing the accuracy and transparency of digital revenue data. The platform currently supports the revenue data feeds from over 30 digital retailers and distributors worldwide, supporting both the agency model and retail model, including Amazon (Kindle, Audible, Create Space and AmazonMP3), Apple (iBookStore, AppStore, and iTunes), Barnes & Noble, Sony, Ingram Digital, Ingram Lightning Source, Overdrive, and others.
The service automates and tracks the import and normalization of revenue transaction data received from e-retailers, provides sophisticated tools for clearing transaction errors, aggregates the transactions into an output feed that can be customized for downstream royalty and ERP systems, and provides Web-based analytics to examine sales trends. The result is a highly scalable solution for book publishers now faced with processing and managing sales data from dozens, and potentially hundreds, of electronic retailers, book services, and distributors worldwide.
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Digital Advantage for eBooks offers: - Scalability: Able to process billions of eBook and other digital transactions
- Accuracy: Provides sophisticated web-based tools to help clear errors in transaction data
- Transparency: Web based interface allows for 24/7 access by users across the organization and around the globe to view the status of sales reports
- Flexibility: Contract with new retailers without the increase of downstream support costs, regardless of business model (e.g., agency, retail, download, subscription, advertising-based)
- Ease-of-use: Alerts and views into the sales transaction management process
- Proven reliability: Used by hundreds of record labels and media distributors, and now one of the largest book publishers in the world
- Accounting & Audit Controls: Automated reconciliation reports provide complete visibility into revenue and suspense transaction accounting
- International Scope: Handles transactions produced by eBook, downloadable audiobook, and print-on-demand services located anywhere in the world, supporting transactions of any type, on any scale, in any currency
- Web-based access:
- No hardware to buy or maintain
- No software to install or update
- No backup management
- No data importers to build or maintain
- No management of ongoing development process
- No risk of cost over-runs, project delay, or failure
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Digital Advantage for eBooks is used by Hachette Livre, the world’s second largest book publisher, to process all of its rapidly expanding eBook, downloadable audio book, and print-on-demand transactions on a worldwide basis. Drop us a note and see how the platform can be put to work for your business.
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