May 27th, 2010
MetaComet President David Marlin participated in one of the most talked about presentations at Book Expo America. Marlin focused on the changing nature of rights, and the new opportunities to monetize content. Read all about it in Publisher’s Weekly: “Publishing for the Age of Abundance“.
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May 10th, 2010
David Marlin, President of the leading Royalty Management solutions company MetaComet Systems, will be speaking on May 26th 2010 at Book Expo America in New York City. The session is titled: “Rights, Royalties & Retailers: What Works?”
For more information, please visit the BEA Conference website.
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July 7th, 2009
MetaComet Hosts Google Book Settlement Panel: “MetaComet – home to the internationally acclaimed Royalty Tracker® — provides the world’s leading Royalty Software solutions for tracking royalties and rights, royalties processing and Royalty Management. MetaComet’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution can be tailored to meet each customer’s need. Founded in 2001 with a focus on book publishing, MetaComet now provides solutions to content providers in books, music and digital content. For more information, call 413-536-5989, ext 210, or visit us on the Web at www.MetaComet.com.”
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April 20th, 2009
With major houses like HarperCollins adopting a paperless model for their catalogues, it’s easy to wonder when publishers might update other older aspects of their business, such as mailing out royalty statements. Currently, almost all houses handle royalties the old-fashioned way—they print out statements, stuff them in envelopes and physically mail them to their authors. But why?
Read the full article at Publisher’s Weekly.
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March 2nd, 2009
Martin Fowler, one of the most respected thinkers in the software engineering field, once wrote that the language used to write software is relatively irrelevant. The architecture of the system, and how intelligently it’s implemented, is of much greater importance. Thus his classic book on architectural patterns – the language used is irrelevant.
The analogy has some application to information technology systems as well. When you look at a system’s feature list, can you really assess how well that system will solve your business problem? The more complex the problem, the more relevant the question. Ultimately, features are irrelevant. Solutions are all that matters.
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February 13th, 2009
When I started what eventually became MetaComet systems back in 1998, I wrote most of the code for the Royalty Tracker(r) System myself. While I would always test my work, it is a well known heuristic that software engineers make the worst quality control people. They have subconscious biases which prevent them from hitting the problems.
I continued to develop code up until early 2007. By this point we had grown to a 7 person company with several software engineers and some of the most respected media companies as customers. And while we had implemented some formal testing practices, we did not have a dedicated quality control program.
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December 5th, 2008
SOUTH HADLEY, MA – Dec. 5, 2008 – MetaComet Systems, the leading provider of royalty solutions, today announced the formal launch of its 24×7 support line. Widely regarded as providing the best support in the industry, MetaComet has expanded that support to provide full coverage at any time to its customers.
“For many of our customers, processing royalties can be more than a 9-5 endeavor,” according to David Marlin, President of MetaComet Systems. “During the busiest royalty seasons, our customers must process large volumes of royalty statements over very short periods. If they decide to stay late or work on a weekend, we want to be there for them with the same quality support that we provide during regular business hours.”
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