Author Portal – Relationship Management Software

Author portal for publishers

Author Portal – Relationship Management Software

How your authors perceive their interaction with you is a key competitive parameter. Turn compliance into efficiency and build trust and strong relationships
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Turn compliance into efficiency and strategic gain – and build author engagement

Make your publishing house more attractive and competitive with our author portal

As self-publishing options grow and publishers battle over lucrative contributors, it’s never been more important to show authors and agents why they should choose you.

Schilling’s Author Portal helps you make information available online – whatever information you decide to share and whenever authors and agents want access to it – securely protected, of course.

Such transparent and flexible extra services demonstrate your value as a publisher, enhances communication, and improves author relations, all while keeping you in compliance with EU transparency directives and taking some of the burden off your editors, your customer service, and royalty departments. 

You’ll save time maintaining master data and sharing sales figures with authors. Plus, you’ll have all communication with authors documented easily and accurately.

Simplify compliance with EU directive and national legislation on transparency
In response to the European Union’s Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, adopted in April 2019, publishers across Europe are now faced with the challenge of enhancing transparency and ensuring fair remuneration for authors. Our automated author portal directly addresses these needs by simplifying compliance with the new regulations. By providing real-time, detailed data on how authors’ works are being used, our portal not only aligns with EU requirements but also facilitates a more efficient and trusting relationship between authors and publishers.

  • Store all written communication in one central, easily accessible location.
  • Sign author and rights contracts online, save time, and minimise costs.
  • Release information such as royalty settlements and sales figures immediately.
  • Enable authors to update their personal data themselves.
  • Simplify negotiations by uploading contracts, enabling authors to make comments and suggestions, print contracts, and even sign contracts online.
  • Enhance author satisfaction and make yourself more attractive to authors.
  • Increase author engagement and trust by providing easy access to important information.
  • Reduce operational costs by minimising the need for manual updates and communication.
AUTHOR PORTAL

Everything authors want in one convenient place

Authors have access to sales figures, contracts, calculations, payments, master data, and more, whenever they want it. Communication has never been more convenient.

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FAQ - Author Portal

What is an author portal?

An author portal is an online platform that allows authors to manage various aspects of their work and to access for example sales figures, contracts, and royalty settlements. Publishers can use author portals to share sales data, automate royalty settlements and payments, and send contracts for signature. An author portal is a user-friendly platform designed to enhance the overall author/publisher relationship by improving communication and taking some of the administrative burdens off editors and customer service and royalty departments. Features typically include secure storage of communication, access to contracts, and tools for authors to update personal information.

What are the benefits of having an author portal?

An author portal is a powerful tool for publishers that helps them streamline operations, save time, improve communication, enhance author relations and author satisfaction, and ultimately help retain authors. Moreover, an author portal significantly reduces the time publishers spend on author support by automating and centralising processes. This efficiency gain enables publishers to manage a larger volume of authors, including those with smaller, niche publications (often referred to as the 'long tail') in an effective and scalable manner. Key features often include online contract signing, easy access to past and future royalty settlements, sales data for different sales channels, and seamless communication with authors.

What our customers say

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CUSTOMER CASE

Sanoma Pro chooses Schilling to streamline their contract, rights and royalty processes

Sanoma Pro is already using Schilling’s Royalty and Author Portal solution, which is fully integrated with their corporate finance system. For Sanoma Pro it is vital to have a cutting-edge solution that can support and grow with their activities in the market to constantly ensure efficient business performance and always be at the forefront of developments in the publishing industry.”

We are happy to have released Schilling’s author portal to Studentlitteratur’s authors and we expect that our authors will highly appreciate the service and information it will give them. We already see the potential for a next step with the agreements we make with our authors.

Per Stewarts IT-Chef, Studentlitteratur AB

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