IGP:Distribution Manager with IGP:ONIX Online IGP:Distribution Manager provides fully automated distribution of e-books and other files to an expanding list of international digital retailers, wholesalers, aggregators and search engines.
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IGP:Distribution Manager
with IGP:ONIX Online
IGP:Distribution Manager provides fully automateddistribution of e-books and other files to an
expanding list of international digital retailers,wholesalers, aggregators and search engines.
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Digital distribution power
Automated e-book and other file distribution
Powerful ONIX and other metadata tools
Dynamic digital product pricing
IGP:Distribution Manager allows publishers to
store, manage and deliver e-books to a range of
digital content (e-book) distribution channels
including: online-retailers, digital wholesalers,
print on demand vendors, and search engines.
E-book distribution consists of sending a package
containing e-book files, covers, and ONIX metadata to
each distribution channel you have selected to carry your
digital book products.
ONIX is a business to business protocol for the
distribution of books and serials in multiple formats. It is
a protocol used by publishers to notify sales channels of
new products and the status of existing products. ONIX is
complex and optimized for print book distribution. Using
it effectively for e-book distribution means applying
specific price and currency information for each channel.
The administrative overhead multiplies exponentially.
Each channel has its own packaging rules, and ONIX
metadata requirements. Digital file distribution to
multiple outlets is difficult for publishers of any size. For
small and medium publishers it is a tangled mess.
IGP:Distribution Manager makes the job of getting
digital formats to the right channel with the correct
information easy. It is flexible enough to address any
unforeseen future requirements of a fast changing digital
content future.
Digital content delivery is going to become more
complex before it becomes easier. The first issue "off the
block" is handling enhanced ePubs for specific channels.
An example is, a publisher has produced up to three
variants of the same product with different video
encoding for different reader systems, but wants to
deliver it to three channels with the same ISBN.
IGP:Distribution Manager solves this and many more
problems.
Major New Features in IGP:Distribution Manager
New stand-alone interface IGP:Distribution Manager is now a stand-alone Web
Application with a streamlined interface and all the tools
required to manage powerful, changing digital
distribution business to multiple channels.
Metadata UploadUpload metadata as a spreadsheet, existing ONIX file or
use the built in forms method. The system extracts the
metadata that is required for digital distribution and
prompts you for any incomplete or missing information.
File UploadYou can ftp files to a watched location. The improved
forms interface lets you drag and drop dozens of e-pubs,
kindle files and covers into the system with one action.
The files are instantly uploaded and automatically sorted
into the correct storage location based on ISBN matching
with the metadata. The radical simplification of this
process makes uploading dozens of books with their files
easy and intuitive.
Completeness and Correctness checking
No more failed deliveries because of wrong keyed ISBNsat delivery time. IGP:Distribution Manager has a list of
checks it makes on your metadata for completeness and
correctness. The application dashboard notifies you so
you can to immediately evaluate and correct any
problems. You can even upload partial metadata. The
only rule is there must be a title, and at least one ISBN in
the metadata upload.
Price UpdatesFor publishers that don't have ONIX or other software
systems, you can change prices by book and currency;
and resubmit the ONIX to selected distribution channels.
Price changes can be applied by metadata such as
Imprint, Series or Keyword. The price calculator lets youenter your book price in your currency and will convert it
to all channel currencies using your conversion rate. If
your jurisdiction has the requirement for a taxable price,
you can also enter the tax rate and ONIX price
composites type 01 (no tax) and type 02 (taxed) will be
generated automatically.
Channel Price confidentialityWhen ONIX is assembled and delivered to a channel,
only the prices for that channel are included in the
delivery package. That means if you have different
pricing for distribution channels serving various marketsyou can optimize the price for each market served, and
the pricing information remains confidential.
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ONIX outputs IGP:Distribution Manager supports delivery of ONIX
2.1 or ONIX 3.0 channel by channel. As the various
distribution channels adopt ONIX 3.0, you are ready.
Spreadsheet outputsThere are some distribution channels that cannot handle
ONIX price changes elegantly and you just have to email
them a spreadsheet. You can generate a spreadsheet witha custom range of metadata columns with just a few
clicks.
Action Status reportsThe interface now tells you what has happened, and what
you have to do. For example: You have 500 books in the
system and decide to add another channel. Once the
channel has been set up it will compute the prices and
exchange rates automatically (with tax if applicable). It
will then give you the opportunity to review, modify and
commit the prices for each item before distributing.
Warning Status reportsIf there is any metadata or files missing that stop a
distribution event, the system will immediately notify you
through the Status Dashboard. All checks are carried out
at upload and creation time to make sure when a
distribution event happens there are no surprises or
failures based on files and metadata.
Powerful ReportsThe system generates comprehensive log-files as well as
maintaining Status information. The Reports interface
allows you to view your distribution history and events
with multiple filter options.
File Storage IGP:Distribution Manager saves files to IGP:Repository
2 by default. It can also be configured to store files on a
local server, and an external API to allow it to interface
with other systems is on the roadmap.
IGP:Long Running Process Engine
Complex overlapping processes have been radically
simplified due to the power of the new IGP:Long
Running Process Engine (LRPE) working in the
background. This is included in your IGP:Distribution
Manager license.
LRPE can queue and manage thousands of processing
events. It makes installing and setting up a new channel
with different packaging rules easy because it is a fully
scripted workflow engine. Each channel packager is an
programmed workflow activity distributed by Infogrid
Pacific as part of the license. This simplified approach to
high volume processing dramatically lowers the product
complexity, increases current and future flexibility, and
lowers total cost of ownership.
LRPE can handle thousands of file uploads and
distribution events elegantly and simultaneously. New
channel packaging processes can be dropped into place
and be working instantly. In large installations it can be
deployed on a dedicated processing server.
Product Gamut
Digital Product Distribution Only IGP:Distribution Manager is designed for digital file
distribution and addresses new and emerging complexity
issues specifically related to digital e-book distribution.
It is not a complete ONIX solution for print books. It is
targeted at the needs of Small and Medium Publishers
and addresses the immediate need of getting digital books
to as many channels as possible, as fast as possible.
A software license, not a service IGP:Distribution Manager is not a SaaS or aggregation
service product. You must have your own accounts
registered with Amazon, Apple, Kobo and other
distribution channels. IGP:Distribution Manager is
licensed on various terms and conditions to address a
wide range of business requirements.
Suitability for large publishers IGP:Distribution Manager may or may not be suitable
for larger publishers with sophisticated in-house ERP and
ONIX systems, depending on the exact requirements. It
does not preserve the submitted ONIX. It extracts the
required metadata from submitted ONIX and rebuilds the
ONIX at distribution time, channel by channel. This
allows the addition of multiple pricing composites and
other channel specific rules.
Our Browser policyIGP Web Services applications only support highly
standards compliant browsers. That means we do not
support Microsoft IE any version. We do this for the
following reasons. 1) Cost of development is
substantially reduced and this is reflected in our license
fees. 2) Features are more extensive and simplified.
3) The products are not public web sites so the browser
standard required to use them correctly is published
publicly. 4) Modern standards compliant browsers are
generally highly secure, free and work across a wide
range of platforms. The digital content of today and
tomorrow cannot be made to work from sub-standard
frameworks.
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The Distribution Channels
Select your channels
Configure your channels
Set up your pricing rules
Choosing your channels
IGP:Distribution Manager comes with a range of
distribution channels built in. This number is being
maintained and increased. Distribution channel types
include e-book retailers, e-book aggregators, Print on
Demand Vendors and Search Engines. The application
now allows you to register to automatically receive
channel updates from Infogrid Pacific.
Infogrid Pacific provides new channels at no charge if
software assurance licenses are paid. You can also
request additional channels. These are created at no
charge if they are available within the product to all
licensees. Custom channel creation is carried out at our
standard development rates.
Currently Supported Distribution Channels
1. Amazon.com. US and UK book stores
2. Amazon Search Inside.
3. Apple iBookstore. US, UK and Euro book stores
4. Baker & Taylor
5. Barnes & Noble
6. FirstyGroup
7. Gardners
8. Go Spoken
9. Ingram Digital
10. Kobo
11. Libri
12. OLF
13. Overdrive
14. Publidisa
15. Sony UK
16. 7Digital
Channel ConfigurationChannel configuration includes the standard ftp address,
passwords and contact information. It has now been
extended to include options for currency for automatic
channel price calculations, and ONIX Version 2.1 or 3.0.
and distribution event scheduling. IGP:Distribution
Manager now supports three types of configurable
distribution events per channel:
1. First time distribution
2. Re-distribution of files
3. ONIX metadata and pricing update
When you select a channel to add it to your distributionchannel pool, you are prompted once for the custom
information. Normally the default global presets are
sufficient to get down to business.
If you already have books in the system you will be
prompted whether you want to distribute all books in the
system to this channel. You have the choice of filtering
distribution events by Series, Imprints or keyword
metadata, or selected books.
Once you have made your selection, IGP:Distribution
Manager , working with IGP:Long Running Process
Engine prepare your book selection for distribution to the
newly added channel. Adding a new channel and sendingbooks is that easy.
Pricing Rules
By default your book prices are set to the values you
loaded into the system, or the base calculations by
currency carried out by IGP:Distribution Manager . When
you set up a new channel you can specify
channel-currency custom prices. For example you may
want the book to be 10.00 Euro in the EU, and Rs 500 for
purchase from India and add a 15% premium when
converted to US dollar. The business decisions are all in
your hands.
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Create & Manage ONIX
Import existing ONIX
Import spreadsheet metadata
Create ONIX with the internal forms
IGP:Distribution Manager creates and maintains ONIX
metadata for distribution to digital distribution channels
such as Online retailers and aggregators. It is not a
general ONIX product and does not address physical
book distribution ONIX requirements.
IGP:Distribution Manager was created to solve real
publisher pain points as they enter the the business of
digital publishing and the complexities of owning and
managing digital content over time. IGP:Distribution
Manager focuses on optimizing digital product delivery
with powerful new features not found in standard ONIX
applications.
The ability to maintain multiple pricing and rights across
your books—and change the prices at any time—is a new
publisher business accelerator.
Import existing ONIX files
You may already have ONIX files for your standard print
operation. The problem is there are no ONIX applications
available right now that can generate multiple ONIX
files, for multiple channels, for multiple formats, each
with different pricing rules. That problem instantly goes
away with IGP:Distribution Manager .
You continue to maintain your primary ONIX metadata,
and update IGP:Distribution Manager as often as you
need. Changed metadata values will be updated. If you
change your base price in your primary ONIX your other
currency and channel prices will be generated for you
automatically.
Import spreadsheets to ONIX
If you have a number of books to import and don't useONIX, you can use the supplied spreadsheet templates to
load multiple books at one time. There are two main
spreadsheet upload systems - columns and rows. The
spreadsheet templates are provided with the application.
When your spreadsheets are uploaded the correctness and
completeness algorithms check your data to reduce
supply errors. Any error suspects are highlighted in the
Status Interface and you can immediately and easilymake the corrections. No distribution events will occur
until all error suspects have been edited.
When you use spreadsheets to get product details into the
system. The minimum required metadata is Title, author,
one e-book product identifier and an ex-tax price in your
base currency. All other changes and updates can be done
using the user friendly forms interface.
Create ONIX with the internal Forms
IGP:Distribution Manager has built in forms that allow
you to create ONIX directly in the interface. This is ideal
for smaller publishers who don't have any other
supporting software products.
When importing spreadsheets and ONIX files, the forms
interface lets you make correctness and completion edits
right in the application. This ensures that when the
distribution events occur, there are no fail points. Some
distribution channels also have additional required
metadata beyond the ONIX; an example is Apple. If you
are distributing to any of these channels the application
will prompt you for any missing channel specific custom
metadata.
The same forms allow you to update and modify any
book ONIX metadata at any time. You can then and
trigger a full redistribution event, or a price change
notification event for all the book channel events where
the price has changed.
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Digital Product Pricing
Multi-currency pricing
Pricing by channel & currency
Global, metadata, and per book, price changes
Price Control is in your hands
IGP:Distribution Manager provides publishers with new
levels of price management control and flexibility. You
can manage and change prices by currency and channel
and apply them globally—through to individual books
being delivered to a specific channel in a single currency.
Digital publishing opens new pricing options for
publishers. Digital content empowers publishers to
manage prices to optimize business in differentdistribution channels and currencies. Digital publishing
means there may be many more variants on the same
book including multiple e-book formats, rich-media
enhanced versions, online subscription versions and other
value additions. Each of these product manifestations can
have different pricing applied by currency and channel.
A hundred books sold in five currencies to 10 channels
can be up to 5,000 price variations. Whether you are
distributing a few dozen books, or thousands,
IGP:Distribution Manager solves the complexityproblem for you with built in price generation, currency
conversion and messaging services for digital products.
Price generation
When you set up a new channel the application will
inform you of the currency requirements for that
distribution channel. When you upload your metadata, if
you haven't already set currency prices, the Price
Generator will automatically convert your book price
from your base currency to other currencies using your
defined currency conversion rules. Prices can begenerated with or without rounding rules.
You can also convert your book price from your currency
and simultaneously apply a price modifier per channel
and currency. This allows you to consistently deliver an
optimized price for the various distribution channel
options. You can also specify individual book prices per
channel and per currency.
Price Changes
There are a lot of reasons to change prices of digital
products. Promotions, adjusting value through the
long-tail, and of course for statutory reasons. Assuming
you can break-away from print-book distribution and
pricing restrictions, the world is yours. The price update
options available are:
Global Price ChangesYour government may have changed a tax rate, or
perhaps inflation is hurting you too much and you need to
increase your prices. You can change the price
calculation on a currency on a global basis with a simple
set of computation choices.
Channel Price ChangeThere may be a requirement to change the prices of books
for a channel. This may be required if there is an
agreement for a channel for a period of time. This must
apply to all currencies applicable to the channel.
Book-Channel Price ChangeA book can have a custom price per channel. The change
is applied to all currencies or to a just a specific currency
if the channel offers multiple currency sales. In this case
rounding rules are not applied as the sales person
responsible for price change has the exact book values
documented.
Notification of Price Changes
When you make any price change it can be immediately
sent to the appropriate distribution channels. The system
flags that a Book and Channel has a Price Change eventapplied, you check that the pricing decisions you have
made are correct, and send. ONIX only distribution event
is triggered and the files are sent.
Some channels cannot process ONIX price change
events. In this case you can generate a price change
notification spreadsheet and send that by email. It's a realworld fact that digital distribution is uneven. But
IGP:Distribution Manager makes complex business
straight-forward and achievable.
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Licensing and use
Site licenses
Hosting support
Rent to purchase
IGP:Distribution Manager is a Web Services application
that must be licensed. It is designed and priced to
empower publishers of all sizes to control their own
content.
It is not another services solution that clips a percentage
of your sales or charges you by distribution even. Our
publisher products strategy reflects our strong belief that
publishers must control their own digital content for a
viable future. IGP:Distribution Manager licensing
reflects that position.
Once licensed, you will have to register directly with the
distribution channels to which you want to deliver your
content; and you then configure IGP:Distribution
Manager with the channel information and
password—and get distributing.
You get your own sales report from each distribution
channel. Infogrid Pacific is not involved in your digital
retail business in any way. There are no per book or per
distribution event fees. There is no percentage of sales
fees.
License Options
Site LicenseThe main IGP:Distribution Manager is a site license for a
single organization. You purchase the application, install
it on your servers and use it. The annual software
assurance must be paid and ensures you are constantly
updated with new channels and other product upgrades as
they become available. It comes complete with
IGP:Repository 2, IGP:Information Architect 2, and
IGP:InfoViewer 2.
Cooperative LicenseInfogrid Pacific specializes in supporting small and
medium publishers around the world. Cooperating groups
of publishers can purchase a single license and use it
together. The main terms and conditions are that all
cooperative members are publishers, and there is a
maximum of five publishers in a cooperative license. All
cooperative members are included in the license.
SaaS License IGP:Distribution Manager is available as a SaaS license
for any organization that wants to provide a service
framework where you purchase the application, install it
and use it for providing charged services to other
businesses. This is a one-time license fee. The software
assurance must be paid and ensures you are constantly
updated with new channels as they become available.
Terms and conditions apply to SaaS licenses. Infogrid
Pacific will not sell SaaS licenses with any non-compete
or exclusivity conditions of any sort.
Hosted LicenseIf you don't want to install and operate the application
yourself, Infogrid Pacific offers paid hosting services on
Amazon Web Services (AWS). This comes with system
administration technical support for your
IGP:Distribution Manager license purchase. We do not
provide channel administration or content related support
services.
Hosted licenses can also be amortized over 12 months to
assist Small and Medium Publishers with cashflow
management. Terms and conditions apply.
Rental OptionFor small publishers with a limited number of books we
offer a software monthly hosted rental option. The
minimum rental period is 12 months. The limit is 200
books under distribution management, after which the
full licensing options are more financially viable.
Other License informationIGP applications are licensed on a user/site basis. There
are no users or CPU restrictions with IGP software
licenses. You can deploy them in a single location with as
many servers as required to operate at the load levels
your business demands.
IGP applications are built on an Open Source stack of
Linux, Apache, PostgreSQ and Django. All application
code is written in Python. While the applications can be
made to work with other Operating Systems or
Databases, IGP does not test the applications on any other
technology stack.
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Take a look!
Just one application does it all
Focused and optimized for the Small and Medium
publisher
All the tools
IGP:Distribution Manager has all the tools you need to
implement comprehensive digital distribution strategies.
The application interface is tablet friendly so you can
monitor your distribution business anywhere. The simple
"one touch" dashboard is easy to use.
The auto generated Status Reports let you know what is
happening in the system, and what you need to do to get
your books distributed.
Reports are available for individual books and
distribution events, and you can generate ONIX files and
spreadsheets for any report
Complete Maintenance Tools
The maintenance dashboards let the product owner
control everything: which channels are supported,
currency rules, default rights profiles and publisher
accounts.
In addition a full i18n, internationalization interface
translator is built right in. You can make the interface
available in any languages for any target groups.
The powerful IGP:Long Running Process Engine is
available (with special priveleges) to allow packaging,
filtering and processing scripts to be created, maintained
and changed delivering the ultimate technology
flexibility.
Powerful editable reports
Every report line lets you directly interact with and
modify metadata, rights, prices on an individual book,
channel and currency basis. You are in control. Any
changes you make are instantly candidates for
redistribution, and which products are ready for
distribution is constantly available through the system
Status view.
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About Infogrid Pacific
Infogrid Pacific is an innovator in Content Management technologies and business solutions
for publishers. We have a number of powerful content technology applications that make the
production, management, distribution and sales fulfilment, and long-term ownership of digital content easy.
IGP:ECMS Solutions provides a complete environment for archiving, managing and
distributing content. Special vertical market versions are available such as
IGP:PublisherECMS , optimized for Publisher file management and distribution.
IGP:Distribution Manager and IGP:ONIX Online allow the distribution of e-book formats
and other files to multiple e-book retailers, wholesalers and Libraries with flexibility in
pricing and regional models.
IGP:FLIP (Front List Interactive Publishing) is built on IGP:PublisherECMS and is a full
Online front-list collaborative authoring and XML production environment for print andmultiple eBook formats.
IGP:Content Fulfilment Systems is a stand-alone suite of products that enable powerful
digital content and merchandise sales. It includes IGP:BookstorePlus, IGP:Offers
Agreements and Rights, IGP:Content Fulfilment System, and AZARDI II offline digital
reader.
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