IGP Distribution Manager Brochure

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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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.

©2008-11 Infogrid Pacific. All rights reserved.

Content subject to change without notice.

Trademarks and tradenames where used are the property

of their respective owners.

This brochure was created and is maintained with IGP:Digital Publisher (aka IGP:FLIP).

Infogrid Pacific Sales Contacts

Internet: www.infogridpacific.com

Email: [email protected]

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