Monday, May 28, 2007

SAP Book Publishing Software

SAP's book publishing software offers two unique advantages when compared to other solutions.

First, it offers the most highly customizable software solution available for book publishers that want a customized solution. When Random House realized they a customized rights solution for their unique needs they were able to construct a customized solution in SAP. Standardized software for larger publishers; such as IBS Bookmaster or Klopotek, does not offer this flexibility.

Second, SAP is multilingual. Workstations in Japan, Germany, United States, Russia and France can access a centralized database in their own language. This feature allows a multinational publishing company to standardize their operations around a single solution that provides management with real time information on their global operations.

That said, in our experience, SAP is best suited for large book publishing companies with sales or $100M+ USD. Why? In the past we have suggested that multilnational publishers with sales of $30M to $75M contact SAP. SAP was not interested in dealing with them, and recommended that they seek other solution providers.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Cats Pajamas Signs 4 New Contracts

Four publishers selected the Cats Pajamas software offered by the Media Services Group.

The publishers are:

New York Botanical Gardens Press, the largest publishing program of any independent botanical garden in the world.

Smithsonian Books which will use Cat's Pajamas to calculate and process rights and royalties.

Kumon Publishing North America, a subsidiary of Kumon Publishing Corporation, an educational publisher founded in Japan in 1988.

Eastern Washington University Press

Bookmaster Selected by EMC Paradigm Publishing

PRESS RELEASE
IBS North America, March 15, 2007

EMC Paradigm Publishing signs a software license agreement for IBS Bookmaster software.

EMC Paradigm Publishing, which recently celebrated fifty years in the publishing industry, has signed a software and services agreement with IBS to install the world-leading software suite for publishers – IBS Bookmaster. The new system will include financials, book production, inventory control, warehouse management, subscription management, royalties and retail management.

“The IBS Bookmaster software suite will help take our publishing business to the next level, while making us more competitive and more efficient,” states Pat McKeown, Director of Information Systems, EMC Paradigm Publishing. “We are especially looking forward to the Book Production Module that will be able to track our process from inception to final printing. Throughout the evaluation process, we felt that the IBS Bookmaster software was the most comprehensive of all the software applications we looked at.”

About EMC/Paradigm Publishing

For more than 50 years, EMC Paradigm Publishing has been committed to developing quality educational materials and providing personalized service to educators. Their School Division offers textbook programs in World Languages, Business Education, Literature, and Language Arts with supplementary and multimedia materials. The College Division offers textbook programs in Computer Technology, Allied Health, Accounting, Office Technology, Distance Learning, Staff Development and Biotechnology with supplementary and multimedia materials. EMC has customers throughout the US and Canada.

Acumen Rights Management Module

The new Acumen Rights Management Optional Module enables you to manage rights submissions and contracts, and increase lucrative subsidiary rights sales. Subsidiary rights sales provide the benefit of leveraging existing intellectual property into other industries, geographic regions, and languages.

While the core ACUMEN system provides basic support for rights sales, the Rights Management Optional Module builds on the basic rights features by integrating Submissions, Customers, CRM, Regions, Products, Invoices, Accounting, Royalties and Cash Receipts into a full-featured system that enables you to manage all aspects of rights submissions and contracts—from the initial contact to the signing of a contract and receipt of royalty payments.

CyberWolf Inc. has been helping publishers grow since 1990 and is used by over 180 publishers. To learn more about ACUMEN Book®, visit www.acumenbook.com.