Weekly Livestream highlights

We broadcast a weekly livestream which covers the key strategic imperatives and challenges facing all publishers: how to deal with change; how to get your data to reach further; how to become ever more expert at your trade; understanding key processes in depth; and working with your data in Consonance at speed.
This page highlights some of the most useful segments and episodes. See the full playlist.

Change.

Change is inevitable in modern publishing. In this segment we look at how to deal with it and remain ahead of the curve.

A still from the Livestream showing the ingram lightning source spreadsheet.

33: Lightning Source Spreadsheet.

Ingram Lightning Source don't currently take an ONIX feed. Instead, you either type data in to their website, or you can use their spreadsheet uploader and a large template. Use this Data Studio display to map your data into their huge spreadsheet template, so you don't have to create it manually, until they're ready to take ONIX.

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A still from the 50th episode of the livestream showing a data studio page

50: One version of the truth.

In this 50th episode special, the common thread running through all our clients' hopes and dreams is revealed as 'one version the truth'. So we look at the full process of how to get that, from onboarding, through maintaining data, and then getting the pay off of all the change.

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10: To-dos at a role, not person, level.

Early on in a work's life, you might not know who exactly will be working on the project. But you'll know the rough roles. In Consonance you can set up to-dos to be assigned to roles, and then later on assign a person to the role – which will automatically update your schedule.

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Reach.

Use Consonance to make sure your data reaches its widest audience, and your institutional knowledge (such as workflow dates, team responsibilities and capabilities, and management concepts) extends as far as necessary.

2: "Has this gone out in ONIX?".

One of the FAQs in our support inbox!

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Key concepts on a screenshot in Consonance.

19: Training key concepts.

What is training for? We dive into understanding what help and advice is sought and available at different stages of our partnership.

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21: Adding a to-do.

Using to-dos mean your projects stay on track, and in Consonance they are dynamic, use your contractual and publishing data, and relate to your contacts and users and roles correctly.

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Expertise.

Experienced, expert publishers choose Consonance and we love to help them maintain and improve their expertise and skills..

Extracting accessibility metadata in Consonance

3: Extract epublication accessibility information from an ebook.

When you've uploaded finished content files to Consonance, such as ePubs or PDFs, you can click to extract its table of contents and accessibility information – right into your metadata!

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Handling complex tax situations in Consonance

6: Books with VAT.

UK taxes are fairly easy when the product is a simple book. But how do you handle the edge cases? By understanding HMRC commodity codes, product types and work classifications.

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7: Product-supplier level availablility.

Say a work has two products. If you need to have one of them fulfilled by POD, it'll have a different supplier availability than the one printed litho and stored at a traditional distributor. Consonance can be configured to handle this complexity, if this is you.

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Depth.

Deep-dives into the complexities and vast timescales of modern publishing.

9: Specify royalties.

Royalties can be set up at acquisition time, so the detail can be included in the PDF contract exported from Consonance. And then the same data is ready to be used to run royalties, once sales are in.

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41: How to move to Consonance.

What actually happens when we onboard a new client? How long does it take? What's the process? We talk through the initial data import & audit, then through the testing & iteration phases, finshing with the setting up of feeds before go live.

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A still from the livestream showing the commissioning process using schedules, which are made of dynamic to-dos.

52: Commissioning and acquisitions process.

Using briefings, discussions, plans, pipelines, to-dos, and schedules to manage tge acquisitions process.

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Speed.

Insights and advice to boost your publishing prowess at speed.

A royalty statement on the screen in Consonance.

7: A royalty run in 20 minutes.

An entire royalty run from soup to nuts in less than half an hour, broken down so you can clearly see where the numbers come from.

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A screenshot of a classic spreadsheet with lots of badly formatted data.

6: Bespoke advance info sheets in 20 mins.

Gorgeous marketing materials, straight out of Consonance, designed to your custom spec in the app. The template takes less than half an hour, and then it can be used again and again, and duplicated and tweaked.

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A still of a keynote slide with summary information about Consonance's features.

51: 5 minute summary of what Consonance does.

A top level look at the scope of the Consonance app.

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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.