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Publishers are being driven to automation due to the increasing pressures of the online age, from Onix feeds to EDI interconnections the industry is getting better connected and communication has become key.
More and more Authors are taking an active role in the way their book is marketed and foreign rights revenue has become a very important factor in the overall profitability of the book business.
Agreements with Google, Apple and Amazon has brought a large portion of books to handhelds and online readers. the concept of publishing has changed dramatically in the past few years.
Authors are increasingly turning to self publishing, due to the nature of the business they need to build websites with online previews to promote their books themselves, these websites need to imbibe the essence of the book and the style of the author.
The industry is at a very exciting juncture where technology is transforming the way users consume books and publishers sell them, book rights are now sold globally in 100s of languages and reaching an audience in the farthest corners of the earth has suddenly become so much simpler.
Pulse Value:-
Pulse Solutions has worked with industry stalwarts like Publishers Weekly and Combined Book, we have delivered IT solutions for many large publishing houses, authors and literary agencies over the years. We understand the book publishing industry intimately with all its intricate dependencies and specific business needs.
Pulse brings over a decade of experience in this industry to assist publishers, authors, agents and service providers deliver a richer and more functional web and mobile experience to their users.
PubMatch.com is our formost contribution to the publishing industry, this system has become the leading networking portal for publishers, authors, agencies and service providers. This is the only mainstream system that enables online rights transactions for independent authors and publishers. A rights repository that has opened up foreign markets for 1000s of authors.
Our solutions including publishers websites, author web sites, book introduction sites and online secure book previews are being used by millions across the world, we are constantly improving upon our offering for the publishing industry so as to keep pace with the changing industry.
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