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| quote: | Originally posted by get nyce
how big of a publisher is it that you're working for? eBooks is huge, all the major players (trade/consumer) were plugged during the iPad presentation. Simon Schuster, Penguin, Hachette, and 2 more I forget.
ERP is the basic infrastructure to any B2B business regardless of the product. We have a very distinct BPM defined process for delivering content, product, and digital product to all of our distribution. I doubt it's the most efficient, but it's a large step from where we were 2 years ago. We have 2 third party vendors that we use to CRM our digital assets.
I'v been working on competitive pricing plans for education ebook product within the Higher Education and Professional Learning domains. The worst part is getting the analytical data to make those price point adjustments and determine marketshare amongst digital product. There is technical no POS / Sell Through for a product that is not palpable, so coming up with unique reports is tasking. |
pretty sure the current project is for your company, the global e-com site going to regional ERP back ends? I'm working on the interface for the Aus/Singapore and India systems, starting in Aus.
A lot of the publishers in Aus now go through Pearson and 1 or 2 other majors for distriution, so they may be doing something in-house to work for the others.
Normally we'll just process the order and do the debtors, the front end and electronic distribution is handled externally, but really few of the publishers have got anywhere near that point. they are still trying to figure out pricing, people don't appreciate how little of the cost of a book is the physical printing, so showing value on the e-copy is hard.
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