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Industry Overview | Chart of Primary Competitors

C1. Chart of Primary Competitors in North America

Book
Publisher
Revenue
Primary
Competitors
Secondary
Competitors
$0 to $250K Anybook
Publishers Assistant
Cats Pajamas
DashBook
$250K to $15M Acumen
Cats Pajamas (<=$5M)
Élan (>=$5M)
IBS Bookmaster (>=$10M)
Anko
EasyRoyaltiesUSA
Focus on Publishing
Hipoint
iPUB
Morse Data
Trilogy
Publishing Technology
$15M to $30M Acumen
Élan
IBS Bookmaster
Klopotek
Publishing Technology
Hipoint
iPUB
knkPublishing
Morse Data
Publishers Advantage
Trilogy
$30M to $50M IBS Bookmaster
Klopotek
Publishing Technology
Acumen
Élan
Hipoint
knkPublishing
Publishers Advantage
Virtusales
$50M to $1B IBS Bookmaster
Klopotek
Publishing Technology
SAP
Virtusales

Primary Competitors

Note 1: Publishers with sales under $250K most often use QuickBooks. The two most popular publishing specific solutions used are AnyBook and Publisher's Assistant. Larger or better financed publishers in this market segment favor more expensive solutions such as Acumen or Cats Pajamas.

Note 2: In the market of publishers with sales of $250K to $15M Acumen and Cats Pajamas each have over 160 clients.  This is 8x the clients of one competitor, 5x the clients of another and 3x the clients of a third competitor.

Note 3: Publishers with sales of $30M through $50M are most likely to select IBS Bookmaster, Klopotek, or Publishing Technology (formerly Vista). Each of these vendors  has a customer base of over 100 clients. Furthermore, a majority of their customers have sales of $30M or greater.

Note 4: As of September 2006 Global Turnkey Systems is owned by Klopotek.

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Updated October 4, 2009