Search across Consonance, choose the type of records you want to display, then act on the results.
Pulling data from across the whole of Consonance reveals patterns that help you understand your business, better.
Consonance’s valid data architecture mean you add data once – you don’t create “mirror” fields, or copy data from one level to another, or any of the other oddities we’ve seen in other systems. Example: you add a review text at the work level, and by default it applies to all products on that work – audio download, paperback, epub, large print, the lot. If the review only applies to audio, however, you uncheck the links to the other products. Same with prices: by default, enter one price per product per currency, but when you need to set dates or supplier specific overrides, the ability to override the details is a click away. (Not to mention our automatic Apple price rounding, or automatic versioned customer currency price creation… there is endless possible complexity in publishing, but Consonance makes it manageable.)
We provide a personal service: through the Consonance app, and also through direct advice and configuration. Expert, dedicated support, including tailored development, is always a click away for every person on your team. For example, Consonance presents industry advice on Thema, BIC and BISAC codes at the right time, in the right place, so you get the sales boost of well-classified books. Benefit from the wisdom acquired through years of working with the world’s best publishers; no need to reinvent the wheel.
Consonance is a comprehensive publishing management system, with workflow tools closely integrated with metadata, rights, royalties and production capabilities. We appreciate that Consonance is one player in your overall systems landscape, so, for example, discussions integrate with email and to-dos integrate with your calendaring system.
One version of the truth, everywhere:
Consonance’s usability means any authorised member of your team can update data as soon as it changes. And by empowering the publishing team to enter and export data to ever increasing standards of timeliness, completion, effectiveness and accuracy, your books are more discoverable and appealing, and sell more at higher prices.
We send over seventy flavours of ONIX file to book trade recipients who have all interpreted the standard slightly differently. It’s our problem, not yours: we liase all the time with recipients to accommodate their requirements, such as Ingram CoreSource, Findaway, Longleaf, EBSCO, Faber, JSTOR, Nielsen, Bowker, ProQuest, and Amazon. We calculate and add agency pricing on the fly, send images and content files to different directories, limit feeds by imprint, series, and ad-hoc requirements, and send incremental or full 2.1 or 3 feeds on whatever schedule you need. Because our code is modern and malleable, and our approach is pragmatic and can-do, we bend and flex where others snap. Read more about variations in ONIX.
There are many project management tools available – but only Consonance integrates your to-do‘s with your publishing-specific data.
“Consonance is instrumental in keeping our data organised and getting it out to our trading partners. They have (time and again) been able to facilitate our changing needs and work with us to bring the highest quality data to our website and beyond. With regular updates on new and improved features, and a highly responsive team, Consonance is always a pleasure to work with and we highly recommend them to anyone wishing to streamline workloads and improve their business.” – Heather Gallagher, Liverpool University Press
Get the utmost out of your one source of truth: choose from Consonance’s wealth of project management tools, which draw on your live contract and metadata dates for the ultimate integrated experience. No modules; no buggy integrations: when you see a pub date, that’s the pub date.
Consonance’s production features nestle automatically amongst the bibliographic, costing and schedules needed for a smooth, efficient, profitable workflow. They’re not 'integrated’ (which can be a code word for ‘pricey tech project’) – they are part of the same software application.
A key part of the smooth running of any publisher, Consonance provides full-fledged publishing royalties management, so you can honour promises made to authors without drowning in admin.
Halve your efforts by not having to maintain editorial and production lists as well as your own: spend that time maximising the value of your IP.
Getting your ONIX feeds out to your trading partners is a key task of any publishing management system. But not all ONIX feeds are created equally. Consonance is renowned for its quality feeds, which go beyond mere validity (though you’d be amazed at how many supply chain members don’t reach even that modest baseline) to being timely, flexible, pin-point accurate, rich and consistent – over millions upon millions of product fragments:
“Hugely impressed with the interface and user design elements of Consonance, and the modern approach to system architecture which we feel is well placed to grow with us as our programme grows.”
Institute of Physics Publishing
Contact data in Consonance is organised the way you need it for publishing.
Other systems have modules: ‘title management’ here, ‘royalties and rights’ there. But Consonance is a single “magnificent monolith” app. All your related data is a click – not a new sign-in – away. And because its design adheres to the normal conventions of the modern internet, with accessibility in mind, finding and editing data is already baked into your users’ muscle memory.
