Success stories

Read how progressive publishers use Consonance to drive growth. Subscribe to the blog to read new stories as they are published.

"...By streamlining and automating processes [Consonance] has freed up many publishers to focus on their publishing. One said: “Consonance is a game-changer for us...it’s transformed how we manage our titles and our metadata. It’s so easy to use and does whatever we want it to do.”
– The IPG, on our IPA Services to Publishers award

Academic and scholarly

Consonance's scholarly and university press clients manage monographs and journals as well as books, using innovative business models to publish multi-language, multi-contributor series – at scale

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Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing

Agricultural sciences publishing start-up Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing went from a standing start to winning IPG Newcomer of the Year, using Consonance to structure their complex metadata.

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Liverpool University Press

Liverpool University Press have established strategic partnerships with The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, Voltaire Foundation, Northcote House Publishers and Historic England, applying their rigorous processes to publish wider, faster and more successfully.

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Leuven University Press

Consonance ensures that Leuven University Press maximises its potential in the European market, adhering to the necessary standards and regulations while also taking advantage of the unique opportunities the EU presents.

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Professional and institutional

Consonance provides internal organisational transparency for publishers embedded within institutions, whilst publishing extensive lists swiftly and efficiently

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Taylor and Francis

One of the world's largest scholarly publishers use Consonance to manage and distribute metadata globally.
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IOP

The Institute of Physics are prolific professional publishers who deliver impact, recognition and value to the scientific community through their publishing, enabled through extensive adoption of Consonance's features.

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British Library Publishing

British Library Publishing publish thought-provoking books to showcase unexpected treasures from their collections, including maps, manuscripts, great works of literature and rare books.

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Start-ups

Experienced, expert publishers choose Consonance for their new ventures, to bring vital innovation to the industry

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Boldwood Books

Over the past four years, Boldwood has published over 600 titles, signed over 130 authors and sold over eighteen million books across the world. Forging a true partnership between authors, consumers and team members, they are innovative but experienced, fearless but responsible, and lots of fun!

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Bedford Square Publishers

The team at Bedford Square Publishers has years of experience and use that knowledge and creative insight, alongside evolving technology, to reach the right readers for their books. Consonance flows their data to key trading partners such as Faber.

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Book Dash

Book Dash is a social impact publisher that distributes affordable, high-quality children's picturebooks, particularly in African languages. Consonance supports their vision that every child should own a hundred books by the age of five by providing efficiencies and automation that frees up their time to focus on delivering their mission.

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Trade

When margins are razor-thin and sales are never guaranteed, Consonance provides stability and reach – getting every last drop of efficiency into a list, and every last drop of metadata out

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Pan Macmillan India and SA

Pan Macmillan is part of the Macmillan Group, which operates in over 70 countries worldwide. Macmillan Publishers is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world.

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Rebellion

Rebellion Publishing is consistently at the forefront of SFF publishing: DRM-free on all digital sales since their first electronic title in 2006; publishers of award-winning and fan favourite anthologies; and a diverse range of fiction from award-winning, bestselling and exciting new talent.

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History Press

The History Press are dedicated to keeping history alive through publishing content which tells us about interesting places, important events and intriguing people – revealing little-known stories to new audiences.

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Level up your publishing expertise

Insights and advice to boost your publishing prowess

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Understand the ONIX standard

The ONIX standard is not very standard. Here are ten things that recipients require differently.

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You don't need special software to store data properly

If you have some mechanical sympathy for data and spreadsheets, you’ll likely get a lot more mileage out of them.

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Creative industries and the division of labour

How do you arrange people in a modern company? It’s an endlessly interesting question, and one that needs a new answer with every shift in technology and the markets.

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