Configurable marketing materials
Make season, calendar event and holiday-specific catalogues, flyers and information sheets with Consonance's flexible marketing materials templating capability.
Religious publishing
Bible-specific ONIX support and multi-language and scripts including RTL texts
Group and church adoptions; remixed content; translations, sets and series. Our clients find the tools in Consonance to ensure maximum reach for their IP.
“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, publishers of the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Bible-specific ONIX support
- The ONIX standard contains Bible-specific elements and lists, which you manage on our metadata page when you are configured as a Bible-interested client.
Complete script, language and translations support
- Languages and scripts supported in the interface, in PDF exports and in ONIX XML exports.
- RTL text support e.g. in configurable PDFs and metadata.
- Works in translation managed with original and derived work links, translated and original language data, contributor role information for translators, illustrators and series editors amongst other roles, and multiple links to other related products.
Support for series and sets, Open Access and other bibliographic arrangements
- For classic and re-publishing groups of publications, works can sit within multiple series
- For making works available through Open Access, Consonance supports multiple licensing options
- For ad hoc groupings of works and products, batches can be managed and used as the basis for new searches, as well as spreadsheet exports, catalogues and flyers.
- Group and church adoptions can be managed through metadata, and promoted through custom marketing materials. Manage and analyse the success of sending review copies with the tracked copies feature. Build up customer profiles with user-defined tags, locations, areas of interest and affiliations.
Contributor attributions
- Professional affiliations to scholarly or other institutions managed in the metadata
- Each contributor can have multiple affiliations
- Each work can have multiple contributors
- Places of interest, countries of residence and domicile, ad hoc tags and other contact management assistance on the contact's profile.
Discussions and other project management tools
- For qualitative discourse on publication plans, the discussions feature allows you to keep thoughts and unfolding ideas, budget considerations, cover design ideas, supplementary notes, author activity planning, and other important yet nebulous data near to your quantitative data.
- Use to-dos to remind team members to contact authors and contributors in a timely fashion to ensure manuscript delivery dates met – use the system to remembers the date, and support the team to then communicate in a human and personal fashion.
Secure permissions
- Record your right to include extracts, quotes, and other content from other publishers and rights holders.
- Manage the licensing of your own rights to other publishers, to maximise the reach of your IP.
Books and other products
- Consonance's data model means you can subdivide as well as aggregate your content, by design.
- Subdivide your content: chapters, articles, hymns, sections.
- Aggregate your content: bundles, sets, spinners and displays, series, ad hoc groupings.
- Non-book products supported, including maps, globes, merchandise, bookmarks, jewellery, posters etc.
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.
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