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Select the best publishing software for small and medium-sized businesses
Choose STREAM-lite, powered by Klopotek, and get the best publishing software for small & medium-sized businesses. It's affordable, easy to use and get started with, and covers all essential workflows. Focus on publishing great content – let STREAM-lite take care of the rest.
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Select an end-to-end solution covering all key publishing processes, intuitive and guiding users through completing workflows. Don’t worry about IT requirements, adapting your individual processes to the system, training your staff, and transferring your data from various sources and tools.
STREAM-lite is proven enterprise functionality reduced to the minimum. This means for you: low price, no implementation project, training & onboarding a simple task. Select pre-defined packages for your individual requirements; software support can easily grow according to your needs. Interested?
Why is STREAM-lite the ideal solution for you? It covers the entire value creation chain in publishing in the background for you
Pre-contract & title ideation
Contracts
Editorial
Sales & Marketing
Production
3rd Party distribution
Royalties
Pre-contract & Title Ideation
Plan new titles, works, versions, editions, and reprints. Get a sales estimate and ROI calculation. Create a fact sheet with all relevant details for the publishing decision.
Contracts
Efficiently work with an author pool to manage all communication. Create and handle contracts with authors. Manage payments for advances and sub rights advances.
Editorial
Enable editors to work smoothly, create metadata and blurbs, assign identifiers/ISBNs and check the quality of the metadata to prepare everything need for announcing the title
Sales & Marketing
Boost your sales & marketing by creating ad-hoc flyers and catalogs and sending correct ONIX feeds. Managing and handling your contacts and campaigns becomes a simple task.
Production
Make production in publishing reliable and all costs transparent: plan projects, manage technical specifications, calculate production costs, and manage your procurement tasks.
Third-party distribution
For excellent cooperation with suppliers: upload sales and inventory information, classify your titles according to thema/BISAC etc., provide POD data and metadata, and distribute content for e-pubs and audiobooks.
Royalties
Manage your royalty accounts reliably, perform calculations and create royalty statements. Handle all payments, including for sub rights. Offer an Author Portal for authors to download statements.
Here are 5 essential benefits of STREAM-LITE for you
Do What You Love to Do / Be More Efficient
Create and distribute great and exciting content and move everything else to the background. At the same time, achieve efficiency gains by using a modern system tailored to the specific needs of publishing – from accurate product planning & task scheduling to reliable author payments.
Here are your business processes covered by STREAM-lite:
Pre-contract & Title Ideation
Plan New Titles & Works
Create first documents essential for determining if a title will be published or not. Planning and budgeting tools help with the calculation of print runs essential for the P&L calculation. Fact Sheets can easily be created.
Plan New Version / Edition / Reprint
Initiate reprints, new editions, and substantial editorial updates by using templates. Create Title Families with the same intellectual property. Audio and e-book variations can easily be planned from existing formats.
Sales Estimate & Roi Calculation
Get a reliable forecast for first print runs and subsequent annual sales, split by territory and distribution channel. For each channel, pre-publication orders, ongoing sales orders, and complimentary copies can be entered and tracked.
Factsheet Creation & Publishing Decision
Generate and distribute a Publishing Fact Sheet or Title Information Sheet. This document will be used for the approval of the publication. All information is stored in the integrated Digital Asset Management system.
Contracts
Maintain Author / Originator Pool – Manage Author Communication
Get tools for managing all address details and communication information. Roles, process rules, and classifications can be defined to support business objectives in the contracting process, incl. negotiation with authors and their agents.
Initiate & Handle Advance Payments
This is your tracking system, actively monitoring events and schedules associated with advance payments and terms. Payments can be made in multiple installments and in any currency. Advances can include regular & bonus payments.
Create & Handle Author Contract
Benefit from support for entering all relevant data by making use of our intuitive Contract Wizard approach. Templates are provided for reducing the amount of data entry and to increase accuracy. Cloning contract metadata is possible.
Handle Subsidiary Rights Advances
Make handling advance payments a simple task. The solution supports payment tracking by actively monitoring payments and sets reminders for due or upcoming payments. Taxes associated with the contracts can be calculated.
Editorial
Plan Editorial Tasks
Structure workflows using existing and/or standardized tasks and get visibility to an entire project. Additional task can be added, as the editorial process evolves. Departments/users can be assigned tasks to meet deadlines.
Create & Manage Metadata & Blurbs
Intuitive process steps enable you to stay focused on your tasks at hand, while the solution ensures that all relevant metadata is managed when dealing with title types and information. Get support for creating texts needed for title approval.
Assign Identifiers / ISBNs
Create and/or store an ISBN for a product. If the template used to create a title, parallel version, or edition specifies that the ISBN should be generated automatically, the app solution handle this process.
Quality Check & Title Announcement
Get support for the most critical aspect of every publication: the discoverability in the market. Quality checking, enhancing, and optimizing metadata is essential for published content to be correctly found across the internet.
Sales & Marketing
Create Product Flyers & Catalogs
Produce catalogs and single flyers directly from the STREAM-lite solution, almost at the touch of a button. Use and manage your own customized templates.
ONIX Distribution
Let the system help you to organize your ONIX feeds. Records that need to be fed are reliably selected for the export. Aggregators and resellers will get your metadata in a smooth way.
Manage Contacts – Monitor Contact Activity
With fast and intuitive look-up and update processes, you can easily classify contacts and access a detailed contact history. Monitor all inbound and outbound interactions.
Manage (E-mail) Campaigns
Create template-based documents and e-mails: Small and medium-sized businesses can employ numerous data merging activities in a simple manner.
Manage Publicity Contacts – Publicity & Review Copies
Manage reviewer information to handle all related marketing steps with ease. This process starts with sending out review offers and concludes with the receipt of reviews.
Production
Plan Production Project
With STREAM-lite, calculations and recalculations, even of complex production projects, are quickly done. Gantt charts visualize all the elements you need to see to understand how changes will affect your planning.
Manage Technical Specifications
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Calculate Production Costs
Benefit from reliable and cost-efficient procedures for pre-production and profit & loss calculations. The P&L calculation provides an overview of projected costs, forecasted sales, and average costs per distribution channel.
Manage Procurement
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Third-Party Distribution
Upload Sales & Inventory Information
You can get one-to-one information on the sales lines that are used for calculating royalties. The system offers tools for editing and correcting erroneous sales lines, e.g. market channels.
Provide POD & metadata
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THEMA & BISAC Classifications
Be sure that your product information is in line with the industry standards: STREAM-lite enables you to easily identify relevant categories and consistently classify your publishing products.
Content Distribution E-pub & Audio Books
For distributing content assets like e-pubs and audio files, STREAM-lite offers two options for asset distribution: the standard assets such as cover images, and content assets, including e-pub and audio files.
Royalties
Manage Royalty Accounts
In STREAM-lite, there is a sub-account available for each royalty recipient that contains all information on advances, royalties on sales, offsetting, rights splits, and payments.
Calculate Royalties
The solution identifies the title for which royalties are to be paid, finds the relevant contracts, and selects the appropriate royalty rule. Then the rate from the rule is applied.
Create Royalty Statements
In STREAM-lite, a standard (configurable) royalty statement includes a summary, advance information, royalty details per contract and title, sub rights advances & royalties.
Handle Sub Rights – Handle Payments
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Author Portal
Offer authors and agencies access to intuitive information on royalties, advances, and sub rights (incl a history). Allow recipients to download e-statements (no paper).
Select from three STREAM-lite packages to to bring professional business processes to your workspace:
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Essentials Package: from Ideation – Approval – Editorial – Design – Metadata Creation and Distribution – Sales and Marketing Planning and Asset Production – to File Delivery for Print Production.
Standard Package: includes all Essentials. From Approval – Contract Creation – Rights Defined & Marketable – Calculation of Royalties – to Accurate Accounting of Revenue for Author Payments.
Advanced Package & Add-ons: Standard Package is further augmented by workflow management allowing for better visibility across departments, communication between stakeholders, and meeting deadlines.