Thomas Nelson, a Christian publisher with the mission to “inspire the world” and the seventh largest trade publisher in the USA, went live with Klopotek’s solution for Contracts, Rights & Royalties (CR&R), a module of the Product Planning and Management system (PPM), in November 2008. Troy Edens, Senior Vice President and Controller, and Christine Jones, Director of Accounting, Royalty, share their thoughts and experiences about the growing need to improve efficiency in rights management and the benefits of a solution that integrates all aspects of contracts, rights, and royalties in this case study.
Klopotek’s Account Navigator
January 29, 2011 By
Account Navigator, a new feature of Klopotek’s CR&R (Contracts, Rights & Royalties) module, provides a smart way to monitor all accounts of royalty recipients, including the history of an item. You can either get a quick overview, which displays general information plus the last statements, or move into greater detail by jumping across contracts, products or sub-accounts. This is particularly helpful when handling complex accounts, e.g if an agent represents several authors or if several contracts have been made with an author.
Frankfurt Royalty Software Exhibitors
September 13, 2010 By
Royalty software vendors exhibiting at the Frankfurt Bookfair; October 6th through October 10th, include:
- Bradbury Phillips – Hall 8.0, Stand D956.
- Easy Royalties & That’s Rights – Hall 8.0, Stand L986.
- Klopotek – Hall 4.0 Stand E 1303. Klopotek offers a seminar at the Book Fair this year: “Standard Processes for Digital Publishing Workflows”.
- Publishing Technology – Hall 4.2, Stand L450.
- Virtusales Publishing Solutions – Hall 8.0, Stand S988.
Eerdmans Publishing selects Elan
September 13, 2010 By
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, a religious publisher based in Grand Rapids, Michigan will upgrade their Media Service’s CISPUB system to Media Services Group’s cloud-version of Élan Book. This upgrade will provide Eerdmans with licenses of Élan Book, Circ, CRM, Rights and Royalties (RR), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Analytics (excel-based data analysis) and an integrated website optimized for ecommerce and customer web self-service. Eerdmans has been a CISPUB customer since 2003.
Virtusales Rights and Royalties Testimonials
September 4, 2010 By
Contracts, Rights and Subrights Module
“Using Biblio, particularly the Head Contracts module, has revolutionized my life…
…This may seem like hyperbole, but it’s not. Biblio allows for better management of the rights granted to Candlewick under the head contracts and enables me to quickly find precedent contracts and contract clauses. This strengthens my negotiating position with agents, authors, and illustrators. [Read more...]
Royalty Zone for Rights Licensors
September 3, 2010 By
RoyaltyZone (www.royaltyzone.com) is a new online royalty reporting & payment tracking service that saves you time & maximizes your licensing revenue. Easy to use & completely configurable, RoyaltyZone lets you enforce the terms of your license agreements: [Read more...]
Cleopatra Records selects Counterpoint Systems
September 2, 2010 By
CANNES—Indie label Cleopatra Records has chosen to implement Counterpoint Systems’ Maestro Relationship Management (MRM) software to provide its clients with access to royalty statements online. Used in conjunction with Counterpoint Systems’ royalties processing application Record Maestro, CRM will allow music publishers and other Cleopatra clients to instantly view royalty and sales data, summary reports, financial balances, label copy and other vital information. MRM is a boon to transparency and efficiency in royalties processing. [Read more...]
Ballon Media Selects Saas Version of Klopotek
September 2, 2010 By
It allows Ballon Media to access Klopotek’s software functionality without having to care about technical issues or pre-investing into a software replacement project. Klopotek’s SaaS solution is completely pre-configured based on best practice business processes: this enables Ballon Media to directly use the system after a short set-up period and compact user training.
Ballon Media will use Klopotek’s system to manage all processes in the areas of
- Title Management & Product Marketing
- Editorial & Production
- Contracts, Rights & Royalties
- Customer Marketing
Alexis Dragonetti, managing director of Ballon Media, states: ‘Ballon Media is a young company that is the result of a merger of two publishing houses that were respectively editing children books and comic books. The merger and the development of both businesses create new organizational challenges. In parallel with the traditional book business we also face growing licensing activities and have projects in the audiovisual field. Ballon Media will be therefore a crucible of multimedia projects in the future.
To keep up with our growth and the broadening of our activities, we were looking for a tool to support the several business processes. After a thorough selection process we have chosen the Klopotek SaaS system as this solution not only covers all our current needs in one single system but also supports us in defining new future business models.
We are extremely confident that the expertise Klopotek and its project team offers, will help us ensure the optimization of our present and future business processes. Since the Klopotek solution is in use by many small, medium and large publishers, we see this as a strategic choice in our business development.’
Karen Tiesling joins Media Services Group
September 2, 2010 By
Media Services Group (MSGL) is pleased to welcome Karen R. Tiesling as Product Manager for the Élan Book software system. Karen brings more than 20 years of expertise designing, developing and implementing software solutions for publishing companies – and another 10 years of experience working in the publishing industry. [Read more...]
Faith Alive selects Elan Royalties
August 30, 2010 By
Faith Alive Christian Resources has reached an agreement with the Media Services Group to upgrade their Cat’s Pajamas system to the cloud-version of Élan Book. The agreement will provide Faith Alive with licenses of Élan Book, Financials, Rights and Royalties (RR), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Analytics (excel-based data analysis), Credit Card Processing interface, EDI transactions interface and Web Services. Faith Alive has been a Cat’s Pajamas customers since 1999.
Faith Alive is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan and is the publishing ministry of the Christian Reformed Church; it is also the resource provider of the Reformed Church in America. In addition, over half of their sales are to denominations other than the Christian Reformed Church. Faith Alive publishes materials for Sunday school and other children’s ministries, youth ministry, adults and small groups, prayer and evangelism, church leadership, worship and disability ministry.