Books and Publishing
Books and Publishing
The publishing business involves the stages of the development, acquisition, copyediting, graphic design, production – printing (and its electronic equivalents), and marketing and distribution of newspapers, magazines, books, literary works, musical works, software and other works dealing with information, including the electronic media.
Book clubs are almost entirely direct-to-retail, and niche publishers pursue a mixed strategy to sell through all available outlets — their output is insignificant to the major booksellers, so lost revenue poses no threat to the traditional symbiotic relationships between the four activities of printing, publishing, distribution and retail.
Challanges
The advent of the Internet has posed an interesting question that challenges publishers, distributors and retailers. In 2005, Amazon.com announced its purchase of Book surge and self sane publishing, a major print on demand operation. This is probably intended as a preliminary move towards establishing an Amazon imprint. One of the largest bookseller chains, Barnes & Noble, already runs its own successful imprint with both new titles and classics — hardback editions of out-of-print former best sellers. Similarly, Ingram Industries, parent company of Ingram Book Group (a leading US book wholesaler), now includes its own print-on-demand division called Lightning Source. Among publishers, Simon & Schuster recently announced that it will start selling its backlist titles directly to consumers through its website.
The CorporateServe Publish Offering
CorporateServe has learnt the pain areas of managing a publishing company and has enhanced Microsoft Dynamics NAV further to include the modules that are needed by a publishing company. This document explains the additional modules developed by CorporateServe for publishing industry. The document does not cover the modules that exist in standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV as stated above.
Modules developed by CorporateServe for publishing industry include the following:
- Production and sub contracting
- Master definition
- Processing rate master
- Binding rate master
- Processing order
- Printing order
- Binding order
- Receiving finished goods
- Budget management
- Budget definition
- Requisitions from marketing department
- Work shop requests
- Approval process
- Editorial module
- Editorial project master
- Editorial job card
- Daily report of work done in job card
- Master card for Freelancers and their rate master
- Suggestions and errors
- Royalty management
- Royalty agreement
- Calculation of royalty
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