Educational Publishers
Handle multi-format licensing, contributor management, and classroom rights
Challenges Facing Today’s Publishers
The publishing industry is undergoing a significant transformation driven by digital disruption, changing consumer behaviors, subscription models, and the rise of global distribution platforms. This shift has altered how publishers produce and distribute content as well as accelerated timelines, particularly when it comes to current events.
With these changes, fragmented rights and more complex royalty models have emerged. Content is now licensed across multiple territories, languages, and formats, with varying royalty structures depending on platform, format, and distribution model.
Managing these challenges using manual processes and cobbled-together systems often results in:
- Difficulty keeping track of complex contributor agreements, guarantees, and performance
- Delays in royalty calculations and payments
- Lack of visibility into content usage across formats
- Revenue leakage from violation penalties and low content reuse
- Lags in publication time
To effectively manage today’s shifting dynamics, publishers require rights, royalty, and content management software that can support international growth, meet the expectations of authors, agents, and content creators, and deliver timely and relevant content in an increasingly fast-paced marketplace.
How FADEL Supports the Publishing Industry
FADEL IPM Suite Publishing Edition and PictureDesk address key publishing industry challenges by automating rights and royalty management, streamlining content workflows, and ensuring full visibility into usage across platforms, formats, and territories. These solutions enhance compliance and reduce revenue leakage by centralizing rights data, enforcing licensing terms, and enabling publishers to operate with speed and accuracy in a complex global media environment.
Centralized Content, Rights & Permissions
- Aggregate both owned digital assets and agency feeds in a centralized repository
- Acquire rights to compose new content creations
- Optimize asset reuse and monetization with rights sales and syndication
Comprehensive Deal and Rights Management
- Negotiate contracts and manage deals across a vast contributor ecosystem
- Track rights by geography, language, format, and channel
- Monitor performance and avoid collisions and contract violations
Royalty Management and Automation
- Automate calculations for royalties, advances, and splits
- Validate sales against contract terms
- Integrate with financial systems for AP, AR, and GL
AI-Powered Business Analytics
- Instantly generate performance dashboards, reports, and presentations
- Model new business ideas and projections
- Improve licensing opportunities with real-time data
Built for All Types of Publishers
Trade Publishers
Manage author royalties, series rights, and global distribution
Academic, Scholarly, and STM Publishers
Manage multi-contributor rights, open access compliance, and institutional licensing
Digital Publishers and Platforms
Track streaming, downloads, eBooks, and audiobooks
Magazine and News Publishers
Streamline editorial workflow, syndicate content, reduce hardware, and cut costs
Why Publishers Choose FADEL
FADEL helps leaders in every walk of publishing move the needle on key performance indicators by empowering them to:
- Scale to manage large volumes of titles and agreements
- Reduce royalty processing time by 70%
- Enhance accuracy and compliance through automation
- Increase visibility into asset usage and monetization
IPM Suite Publishing Edition
Trusted by 3 of the top 5 global publishers to calculate and process all their author and contributor rights and royalties globally.
“As O’Reilly transitioned to a digital publisher, it was really imperative that we find somebody on the back end that could help us deliver on that promise of digital content. FADEL has done that from start to finish.”
– Laura Baldwin, President, O’Reilly Media
PictureDesk
Magazine publishers rely on PictureDesk to operate at the speed of digital media, balancing quality with immediacy to remain competitive in a crowded and fast-moving marketplace.
“The photos really segment themselves in PictureDesk. Search and content reuse has improved just by consolidating into one system and there is clear visibility into the rights.”
– Angus Chisholm, Senior Business Analyst of Content Systems, Are Media
Associations
Executive representation on BISG Board of Directors since 2021. Active participant on BISG committees for over a decade.
Contributor to BIC in the United Kingdom.
Contributor to Association of University Presses.
Participant and contributor to the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
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FAQs About Publishing Tech
Rights management is the process of tracking and controlling how content is used, licensed, and monetized. This ensures legal use and maximizes revenue across formats and markets.
Selling rights for different formats and regions, e.g., translations, audio, or international markets, opens new income streams. This boosts profit with minimal extra cost.
A single system like PictureDesk for content aggregation improves visibility, provides variety, speeds decisions, and encourages content reuse. This lowers costs and increases efficiency.
Using software like IPM Suite Publishing Edition, publishers can apply contract terms to sales data automatically. This ensures fast, accurate royalty payments.
FADEL IPM Suite can provide rights visibility and calculate royalty payments according to complex subscription terms based on sales, consumption, and other factors. This ensures accurate payments, rights compliance, and visibility across subscription models.
Authors and content contributors expect transparency, timely payments, and visibility into how their work is used. IPM Suite with Statement Portal helps publishers meet these demands.