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You ll complete your final batch of copying and pasting bibliographic data. You ll do your last Book Fair rights guide by hand, your last manual royalty run, your last Word document contract.

1 There s a last time for everything - chase editorial for june blurbs In the weeks before you sign up to Bibliocloud, you ll do a lot of things for the last time. You might try to recall out-of-date bibliographic data from Amazon for the last time. You ll spend your last day doing repetitive data-entry spreadsheet work. You ll complete your final batch of copying and pasting bibliographic data. You ll do your last Book Fair rights guide by hand, your last manual royalty run, your last Word document contract. You ll type your last title verso page. You ll manually pull together your last title-level profit and loss report. You ll laboriously typeset and re-typeset your last catalogue and you ll paste data for the last time into your AI template. - fill in waterstones grid by tuesday - do amazon grid by thursday - revise contract for mark do third revision - check catalogue proofs - chase missing catalogue copy - ROYALTIES!! incl statements, update address labels for posting - chase missing ais - check amazon july covers - frankfurt rights guide - update rights deals - update contact list - check advances due list & pay - do shipping planner ($ convs) Because once you re using Bibliocloud, the administrative burden goes away. And you can get on with being the innovative, creative publisher you set out to be. Bibliocloud

2 Bibliocloud lifts the burden of metadata, production, rights & royalties administration -- so book publishers can get on with publishing books. Produce books Use Bibliocloud to assess your book proposals: the in-built Gantt chart-based scheduling tools and forecasting capabilities help manage the sign-off and production processes. Stay in control of your costs using the forecasting and printer tendering feature. Easily retrieve print files and other assets. Sell books Good metadata management is the key to selling books. Bibliocloud produces data in ONIX 2.1 and 3.0 format as well as AIs, website feeds, digital and print catalogues. Sales teams love Bibliocloud's scheduling and workflow management which keeps things on track so data is ready when customers need it. ONIX ONIX PDF CSV Excel Paste XMP PNG/ JPG XML HTML Book Barcode Sales import Title level P&L AIs Royalties Sell rights, pay royalties Address book Print orders Rights guide Rights statements Bibliocloud handles the Contracts & scans most complex royalty rules, Amazon data Catalogues calculating rates based on list Advances and net price, with discount, Payments Sales channels quantity and price escalators. ISBN13 lists For rights and co-editions, Stock Blog postsbibliocloud is a featurecomplete All Settings Title verso data solution, helping you Images maximise your rights revenue Production Any format: InDesign, Photoshop etc files whilst minimising the admin load.

3 A selection of screenshots showing just some of Bibliocloud s functionality.

4 Snowbooks APRIL 2013 INFORMATION SHEET GODS OF ATLANTIS KEYNOTE Third in the successful Blackwood & Harrington Mysteries series after The Martian Ambassador and Feaster from the Stars. PRAISE FOR GODS OF ATLANTIS For previous Blackwood and Harrington mysteries: "This was one of the best books I have read in a while" -- Goodreads "..a delicious mix of nostalgia harking back to H. G. Wells mixed with a very modern take on a At every turn, Bibliocloud makes publishing more straightforward & productive. Editing data is a breeze You can manage all the editions of a work at once: this means you don t have to enter the same data for the paperback, the epub, the PDF and so on. You can duplicate records too, with all the dependencies intact. Grab your current data from Amazon to check and validate it. Improve your data quality With user-defined validation templates, as well as industrystandard validators, Bibliocloud reduces the load of maintaining book data and makes it clear whether or not your book records are complete and accurate. Lock records at will or based on lifecycle stage. Get data out Get your data out of Bibliocloud wherever it makes sense. Export your book data to Excel, your statements, invoices and AIs to PDF, your barcodes and QR codes to PNG, your image files to JPG (automatically resized by Bibliocloud for Amazon, Waterstones and others), and more. Get data in We provide Excel templates to import detailed book data: you can also grab your current data from Amazon or import it from an existing ONIX file. You can also type it in, of course, but users love our default book profiles, the duplication function and easy to maintain templates. Manage suppliers with ease Produce print orders directly from Bibliocloud, and get a head start on the ebook production process with XMP metadata exports. Bibliocloud is your digital assets repository: all manner of files can be easily retrieved, saving time and frustration. Robust and secure Built with security in mind at every turn, data is safe in Bibliocloud. Rolling backups, frequent upgrades to incorporate the latest security patches and robust password management are just some of the measures used to ensure security: ask to read our latest security whitepaper.

There s a simple nav bar at the top of each screen, made sticky so it s always

When you re editing a record, you have Quick Jump options at the side of the

.. Bibliocloud provides a number of search options.

There s a search function in each section -- so when you re in books, you can

If that s not enough, there s a smart filter search on index pages for a more

5 Clear navigation... Bibliocloud lets you know where you are in the system at any time. There s a simple nav bar at the top of each screen, made sticky so it s always visible. When you re editing a record, you have Quick Jump options at the side of the screen -- allowing you to jump to associated records. Quick search... Bibliocloud provides a number of search options. There s a global search which brings back results from all over Bibliocloud. There s a search function in each section -- so when you re in books, you can search in all the books. If that s not enough, there s a smart filter search on index pages for a more precise search. & more Bibliocloud is stuffed full of useful, pragmatic things. For example, it won t let you navigate away from a page with unsaved data without a warning. You can populate a book record from a default profile: You can save collections of books, and recall them. There are helpful functions everywhere.

6 Bibliocloud ships with hundreds of feature s: including importers, exporters, PDF marketing materials, title level P&L reports & charts, scheduling, website feeds, royalty calculations & statements, & rights guides. Here are a few examples, all configurable.

7 Publishers who receive or have received regular Arts Council Publishers England who funding are managed OR have by an sales annual and turnover of < 150,000 and publish poetry, literature or literature in marketing agency Inpress Books are eligible for translation can access Bibliocloud for unlimited users, for free access, forever, to Bibliocloud.com. To find ever, for free thanks to a generous grant from Arts Council England. out more, Please visit get inpressbooks.co.uk touch if you think you meet the criteria for free access. To find out more about Bibliocloud or to get a free demo account, visit Contact Emma Barnes, Director, General Products Ltd emma@bibliocloud.com

A list of ten things about Bibliocloud 1. You can use Bibliocloud anywhere with a web connection, on any device 2. You can have unlimited users on your company account 3.

You can have as many different user roles as you like: from a superadmin, who can do whatever she likes, to a work experience role which limits the user to pretty much read only 5.

8 A list of ten things about Bibliocloud 1. You can use Bibliocloud anywhere with a web connection, on any device 2. You can have unlimited users on your company account 3. Bibliocloud will your boss if you re more than a day late on a task. Gotta keep on schedule! 4. You can have as many different user roles as you like: from a superadmin, who can do whatever she likes, to a work experience role which limits the user to pretty much read only 5. You can track meeting minutes in Bibliocloud. Particularly useful for contentious cover design briefing meetings You can easily track actual performance against the sign-off budget 7. You can see the latest mentions on Twitter of your company and all your books, and post straight to Twitter from within Bibliocloud 8. You can put production jobs out for tender -- invite any number of suppliers to quote on a spec & get the best price 9. There s an events calendar in Bibliocloud, for your own events but also industrywide ones such as LBF, Waterstones sales deadlines and prize entry deadlines 10. More than one imprint in your company? There s an umbrella group management function to make working at imprint level easier. Help, support & training There s a dedicated help section in Bibliocloud. There are tooltips next to every field. There s also a help mode for extra guidance when you re using the system. We also offer group and one-to-one training.

San Juan Books A DIVISION OF MSI PRESS. Tier A an author collective for learning, writing, publishing with support

San Juan Books A DIVISION OF MSI PRESS Tier A an author collective for learning, writing, publishing with support History San Juan Books began as a small group of would-be (i.e. first-time) authors on