The vertical market publishing software solutions in this section are designed for the needs of book publishers with features including backorder management, consignment sales, customer relationship management, direct mail campaign analysis, inventory, returns processing, royalties, sales analysis, standing orders, stock reordering, and more.
Large Publishers – with sales of $50M to $1Billion
Book publishing software in this section is priced at about $200K to over $5M for a typical implementation. Solutions offered by these vendors are highly scalable and offer more features than lower priced solutions. Implementation usually takes from six to eighteen months and many vendors targeting this market offer 24×7 technical support.
Medium Publishers – with sales of $1M to $30M
Book publishing software for medium publishers is priced in the range of $10K to $150K and offers publisher specific features – not found in general accounting packages. Implementation usually takes three to nine months.
Small Publishers – with sales under $1M
The software in this section does what you need it to – i.e. sales and royalties, but generally lacks the advanced features and accounting controls found in more expensive solutions.The price of publishing software targeted at this market segment ranges from $0 to $5,000.