Commentary
SaaS Uptime Statistics
When we evaluate Software as a Service solutions (SaaS) we look at 1) the location of the datacenters, 2) the center’s statistics and 3) their Type II SAS 70 Service Auditor’s Report. Klopotek; one of the larger book publishing software vendors, posts their SaaS uptime statistics on their website. A. Data Center Locations We like to see SaaS vendors using 2 or more data [...]
Print on Demand Systems
Ebook’s growing marketshare in trade fiction has lead to smaller print runs for print books. Smaller print runs equals increased unit costs. When you add in the cost of warehousing, distribution and the working capital tied up in inventory POD has becomes the optimal choice for more midlist titles. A recent article by Steve Waldron; VP of Business Development for Klopotek, [...]
eBook Social Watermarking
You can fight piracy with social watermarking that encodes an ebook file with the customer’s name and purchase information. A customer is less likely to share an ebook that is encoded with their name. If the file is found online, the source of the file can be traced to the purchaser and the retailer/ebook distributor. With social marketing [...]
eBook Piracy Monitoring
The ebook piracy monitoring services favored by book publishers are Attributor and Muso. These services monitor websites for pirated copies of ebooks. If any are found, they issue takedown notices to remove these hyperlinks. Attributor “Attributor Guardian is the leading solution to protect publishers and authors from book piracy losses by cost effectively and globally disrupting the distribution [...]
