Consonance for children's and novelty

Children's

“Thanks for the amazing features and for the enthusiastic and clear way in which you communicate and show it via your livestreams! It's so fun to watch and makes me so excited to get stuck into it!”

Zanri Kritzinger

Book Dash

Trade

“In the modern trade publishing environment, where data plays an increasingly critical role, Consonance reliably does the business for the Library, and has done so for almost a decade.”

John Lee

British Library Publishing

Full children's metadata support

In addition to fiction and non-fiction text-based books and ebooks, Consonance supports a multitude of requirements for images, trim sizes, mixed formats, and audience-specific metadata.
CBMC codes, alongside Thema, BISAC and your own in-house codes
Automatic checks for product level data integrity e.g. audience codes, in house format descriptions
Add unlimited in-house formats and subject categories.
Create the metadata for a new product bundling together multiple books in a few clicks.
Sophisticated pricing management include multiple VAT regimes across territories.
Automatic ISBN-13 allocation, or import from a spreadsheet for legacy data.
Feed your website from an industry-standard API.
Sponsors, funders and other co-publication links.
Safety management including hazards, safety notices and legal compliance record keeping. Upload certificates and ensure correspondence stored next to the metadata via the discussions feature, which also sends emails outside of the system.
Multiple formats are as standard in Consonance's data model: audio, digital, packs, toys, POS and merchandiser units. No synchronisation necessary because products inherit shared data from their parent work: a truly seamless experience because there are no seams.

Configurable marketing materials and rights guides

Make season, series, calendar event, author or illustrator-specific catalogues, flyers, right guides and information sheets with Consonance's flexible marketing materials templating capability.
Include spreads, packshots, pricing, your in house subject categorisations, colour images, and illustrators and translators.
Export to InDesign or, more practically, generate complete materials directly within the system to your own design and data element specifications.

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contractual support

Complex author/illustrator/estate royalty splits.
Escalators based on volume, value, price, discount, and date.
Cross accounting on multiple works on a statement as standard, with overrides into multiple sets of statements for bundled contracts, as required
Publishing fees, multi-currency advances, indexing and other deductions and multi-currency payments all available "out of the box".
Reporting for agents, supporters and funders.

Production including co-prints

Co-editions, reprints and multiple print models supported including print on demand options
Multi-line print order parsing: paste the whole print order into a field and Consonance extracts all the ISBN13s into an order record
Print specifications included in the reporting feature, so you can find products by pub date or any other measure, and see production runs they are included on.
Multi-line purchase orders
P&L planning to forecast print runs, sales and costs, with your own categorisations of sales and spend channels.

Project management tools

Add, view, and manage the hundred-plus individual tasks that need to be done, assigning them to people and viewing completion progress through an online or desktop calendar of your choice – starting with project approval, and following progress through publication and on to a one-year anniversary review.
Track both the big tasks – sending print files, approving cover designs – and the small ones – like checking that cover images are up and pre-orders are available on major retailer websites.

Schedule a call to see Consonance in action and discuss your own situation. If you have your data in the ONIX format, send it over and we'll import it, to make the call particularly interesting.