December 7th, 2009
Tuesday, December 15th at 1PM ET and Wednesday, December 16th at 11AM ET
In anticipation of the web-based ECPA/RoyaltyTracker® software suite (for Royalty and Sub-Rights Management), ECPA is offering two free informational webinars for our members. ECPA/Royalty Tracker® manages the royalty payments, rights tracking and royalty statements for your entire organization in a highly customizable format. Royalty Tracker® knows no limits. It handles unlimited authors per title, reserve accounts, subrights, sliding scales, advances and expenses applied against royalties. Plus – it integrates seamlessly with nearly any accounting, AP or GL system. Register online for either of these FREE sessions. To register for the session on the 15th, click here. To register for the session on the 16th, click here.
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July 13th, 2009
SOUTH HADLEY, MA – MetaComet Systems announced a partnership with startup publisher Quartet Press today. The agreement marked an unmatched milestone for MetaComet in rights and royalties management — the ultimate flexibility and scalability to handle rights and royalties management for publishers of all sizes, including the world’s largest publishers to startups.
“Our Web-Hosted offering has become the fastest growing part of our business,” said David Marlin, President of MetaComet Systems, which offers the Royalty Tracker royalty software. “In fact, we prefer our clients to let us handle all of the IT issues by choosing our Web-Hosted platform. Quartet represents some of the most forward thinkers in the industry, so we are honored that they looked to us to handle their rights and royalties management.”
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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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June 18th, 2009
SOUTH HADLEY, MA – A Rights Registry combined with clear and streamlined rights agreements would help fuel future growth for the publishing industry, argued MetaComet Systems’ President David Marlin, in a piece featured prominently by Publishers Weekly today. A registry and rights standards would enable the widest possible dissemination of content while enabling publishers to keep pace with content delivery innovation. the industry needs it for the widest possible dissemination of content.
As the recognized industry expert in royalty software and rights and royalties management, MetaComet was encouraged to write the article for PW.
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June 1st, 2009
SOUTH HADLEY, MA – Book publishers must rethink rights and royalties agreements with authors, according to an expert panel on the Google Book Settlement at BookExpo 2009, which was led and hosted by MetaComet Systems.
Entitled “The Value of ‘Free’: What the Google Settlement REALLY Means to Midsize Publishers — and how to establish rights agreements with authors when you’re selling books in ‘chunks,’” the capacity crowd heard panelists stress the importance for publishers to prepare themselves for the upsides and downsides to the Google Book Settlement. (The entire audio and transcript is available at: http://beyondthebookcast.com/whats-in-your-catalog/).
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May 14th, 2009
SOUTH HADLEY, MA – MetaComet Systems today announced the launch of its revolutionary MetaGoLive™ tools, which enables publishers, digital content providers and all royalty payers to go live with the Royalty Tracker™ solution with unmatched speed and accuracy.
“We had already been getting companies live in record times. These tools enable us to improve on this MetaComet advantage,” said David Marlin, MetaComet’s President. Already the industry leader in implementing royalty solutions, MetaComet can promise midsize businesses the ability to go live in as little as 4 weeks, with the highest level of quality.
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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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