Consonance® for licensing, content and distribution

Licensing & distribution

Sales rights, head agreement rights management, sub licensing, umbrella group management and more, to enable you to maximise your revenue streams and explore new business models.

Remix content, import ONIX, restrict sales and ONIX distribution to certain recipients, and other powerful tools to reach a new level of publishing capability.

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Taylor & Francis

Consonance.app manages all Taylor & Francis ONIX for Books, globally, via AWS SQS, providing a number of dynamic data enhancements and ONIX 3.1 where accepted. Recipients include Hachette UK Distribution, 7 Amazons, POD, Coresource and OCLC.

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The work overview page in Consonance of an LUP book.

LUP

We support Liverpool University Press with their strategic partnerships which include University of Georgia Press, University of Michigan Press, The Littman Library, Voltaire Foundation, and Historic England.

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Book publishing specific strategic support

  • Sales rights, head agreement rights management, and sub-licensing management, to enable you to maximise your revenue streams and explore new business models.
  • Umbrella group management, to manage your own clients within Consonance (with terms to be agreed for how we bill)
  • Remix content from original to derived works, supported by the ONIX standard
  • A host of tools to manage third party lists including ONIX import, sales restrictions and ONIX distribution to certain recipients for certain products, multiple imprint and publisher tagging, and other powerful tools to reach a new level of publishing capability.

Configurable marketing materials

  • Make imprint, publisher, and information-specific rights guides, catalogues, flyers and information sheets with Consonance's flexible marketing materials templating capability.

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Complete script, language and translations support

  • Languages and scripts supported in the interface, to support your clients whose works you manage in your territories and to record original languages for works in translation, in PDF exports and in ONIX XML exports.
  • RTL text support e.g. in configurable PDFs and metadata.
  • Works in translation managed with original and derived work links, translated and original language data, contributor role information for translators, illustrators and series editors amongst other roles, and multiple links to other related products.

Support for series and sets, Open Access and other bibliographic arrangements

  • For classic and re-publishing groups of publications, works can sit within multiple series
  • For making works available through Open Access, Consonance supports multiple licensing options
  • For ad hoc groupings of works and products, batches can be managed and used as the basis for new searches, as well as spreadsheet exports, catalogues and flyers.

Contributor attributions

  • Professional affiliations to scholarly or other institutions managed in the metadata
  • Each contributor can have multiple affiliations
  • Each work can have multiple contributors
  • Places of interest, countries of residence and domicile, ad hoc tags and other contact management assistance on the contact's profile.

Rights and royalties in the same system

  • Import, manage, and export rights, permissions and royalties – all in the same system.
  • Expiries, date management, permission updates, files, payment tracking and more.
  • Extensive reporting, including analyses and batch royalty statements.

Discussions and other project management tools

  • For qualitative discourse on publication plans, between internal teams and also with third parties, the discussions feature allows you to keep thoughts and unfolding ideas, budget considerations, cover design ideas, supplementary notes, author activity planning, and other important yet nebulous data near to your quantitative data.

Secure permissions

  • Record your right to include journals, merchandise, licenses, audio fragments, extracts, quotes, and other content from other publishers and rights holders.
  • Manage the licensing of your own rights to other publishers, to maximise the reach of your IP.

Books and other products

  • Consonance's data model means you can subdivide as well as aggregate your content, by design.
  • Subdivide your content: chapters, articles, journals, sections.
  • Aggregate your content: bundles, sets, spinners and displays, series, ad hoc groupings.
  • Non-book products supported, including maps, globes, merchandise, bookmarks, jewellery, posters etc.

Schedule a call to see Consonance in action and discuss your own situation. If you have your data in the ONIX format, send it over and we'll import it, to make the call particularly interesting.

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