Could a rights and royalties solution help you to save time, cut costs and generate new revenue?

By Gretchen A. Peck

Publishing Customers Include: Houghton Mifflin, Thomson Corporation, Reader’s Digest Association

Price: Price points available for small and large enterprises.

Phone: (818) 313-8000

URL: www.RealSoftwareSystems.com

Trilogy Group, Ltd.

Solution: Title Manager

Features: Title Manager is designed to enable full control of the contract process, including the set-up of rights details, as well as permissions, options, bids, author contracts and royalties arrangements.

Publishing Customers Include: Not available.

Price: Not available for publication.

Phone: 44 1242-222-132

URL: www.TrilogyGroup.com

Vista International (a division of Publishing Technology)

Solution: Vista Rights & Royalties

Features: The Rights & Royalties solution is designed to help publishers manage complex royalties calculations, including multiple-payee, multiple-author and multiple-title contracts—each with varying terms. It also provides product rights summaries, accruals and sales processing, and contract amortization. An expanded Rights Module also is available.

Publishing Customers Include: Kaplan, Sterling Publishing

Price: It can be provided either as a hosted (managed by Vista) or locally installed system. For hosted solutions, Vista provides all hardware, software, training and support services for a monthly fee that can be as low as $2,000. The final cost for the installed solution (hosted by the customer) is determined by several factors, including number of users, volume, complexity of contracts, and the amount of data conversion and interface customization required.

Phone: (732) 563-9292

URL: www.VistaComp.com

Gretchen A. Peck is a freelance author who writes about the international printing and publishing industries.