Chosen by the best publishers.

Trade, academic, scholarly and children's publishers around the world choose feature-complete Consonance for its ONIX excellence, integrated workflows, and as a cost-effective, organised central hub – so they can get on with working creatively.
Consonance: the trusted place for everything; the technology of choice for the complex modern publisher with growth plans.

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Consonance vs. others: how do you decide?

Are you thinking “Don't all these systems provide basically the same thing – an ONIX feed, some project management, and royalties?” No: Consonance gives you more, for less. Here's a trio of Consonance benefits: it's built for growth; it's well-designed; and our support transcends support (it's more like personalised technical consultancy, delivered as part of the low £75/user/month licence fee). All so you can sell more, with less effort.

Built for growth

Consonance has all the features you need to calmly project-manage complex publication programs, and extract maximum value from your IP in sales, rights and OA downloads. Those features are available to everyone, by default: unlike our competitors, Consonance is not modular, removing any financial, technical or administrative impediment to having your metadata, project management, production, rights & royalties in one place. The resultant joined-up "one version of the truth" makes for an unbeatably-efficient publishing engine, written with highly-tested code by a crack team of programmers who know publishing inside-out. Our approach is proven in publishers of all types, who use their freed-up time so creatively, and whose organised, optimised data and processes are the foundational bedrock for selling more books.

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Designed for people who care about layout

Good design matters, as publishers know better than most. Consonance's beautiful, thoughtfully-arranged interface costs you nothing extra, but it saves you a fortune in training, and hiring the software wranglers required by other systems to translate a cluttered interface into something your team can make sense of. There's none of the erosion of spirit that comes when a team has to use bad software at work. And your trading partners, authors and contributors benefit from reports and statements that are beautiful as well as functional, doing justice to your brand promise.

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Relied on for support excellence

Personal. Effective. Adaptable. Evolving requirements are no problem with a single codebase that handles the often client-specific code that we write in response to your changing needs. And the ONIX excellence you'll develop from our expert advice and actions translates directly into less effort and more sales.

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Innovative, intelligent automations, informed by a deep understanding of the challenges of the industry, add up to an enterprise-grade service that sets a new standard.

Your “one version of the truth”

From acquisition to the latest ONIX 3.1.2 metadata – supporting the industry's emerging requirements, including EU GPSR, EUDR, and Accessibility – contract management, rights, royalties, permissions, production, contact management, and with tailorable codelists throughout the app, Consonance is the complete publishing management system for complex publishing companies who want to achieve stability, consistency and harmony as the basis for growth.

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Remove the repetition, confusion and delay that comes with ambiguity. One version of data, so every team member and every trading partner knows the latest.

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Everyone on the same page, with clear responsibilities, and access to information, wherever they are.

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We work closely with you on your particular requirements, building out our system in response to your evolving needs.

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Consonance is designed to help you get data in – and out. That includes ONIX, CSV dumps, customisable spreadsheets, PDFs, GraphQL read/write APIs, and custom solutions including Amazon SQS.

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Scale matters

Consonance scales as you scale. However much data and processing you throw at Consonance, it will be handled. And our pricing model means that you only pay for the processing power you use. These are the stats of just one of our customers, Taylor and Francis, who we manage ONIX for globally:

1.3 million

product records

179 million

ONIX fragments processed in the last year

5 million

metadata updates in the last year

113

ONIX recipients including Hachette Distribution, Amazon AE, AU, CA, JP, UK and US, IPS, Nielsen and Titlepage, taking daily incremental feeds

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Relied on by publishers around the world

Consonance enables our clients to deliver against their unique business strategies

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Leuven University Press

Consonance ensures that Leuven University Press maximises its potential in the European market, adhering to the necessary standards and regulations while also taking advantage of the unique opportunities the EU presents.

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Taylor & Francis

Consonance.app manages all Taylor & Francis ONIX for Books, globally, via AWS SQS, providing a number of dynamic data enhancements and ONIX 3.1 where accepted. Recipients include Hachette UK Distribution, 7 Amazons, POD, Coresource and OCLC.

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LUP

We support Liverpool University Press with their strategic partnerships which include University of Georgia Press, University of Michigan Press, The Littman Library, Voltaire Foundation, and Historic England.

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Join our growing list of growing clients

University presses, scholarly institutions, academic publishers, trade publishers, multinationals, digital, and audio-only publishers rely on Consonance to fuel their growth plans.

  • Practical Inspiration
  • Amber Books
  • Boldwood Books
  • Canelo
  • Inpress Books
  • Pan Macmillan
  • Scribd
  • Book Dash
  • Restless
  • Rebellion
  • Snowbooks
  • NewGen
  • History Press
  • Tilted Axis Press
  • Whitman
  • Bedford Square Publishers
  • Forbes Books
  • Vertebrate Publishing
  • Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
  • British Library Publishing
  • British Museum Press
  • Facet Publishing
  • Goldsmiths Press
  • IIS
  • IOP Publishing
  • Leuven University Press
  • Taylor & Francis
  • Liverpool University Press
  • Notre Dame University Press
  • Pharmaceutical Press
  • RIBA
  • School of Advanced Study
  • Sydney University Press
  • UCL Press
  • McGill-Queens University Press

We also proudly support Liverpool University Press's partner distribution presses, including University of Georgia Press, Michigan State University Press, and University of Michigan Press, and Inpress Books' list of innovative, independent publisher clients: 404 Ink • ACA Publishing • And Other Stories • Arachne Press • Arc Publications • Arrow Gate Publishing • Banipal Books - Banipal Magazine • Bluemoose • Brydon Books • Burning Eye Books • Charco Press • Cinnamon Press • DarArab • Dedalus Press • Dinosaur Books • Dog Horn Publishing • Foundry Editions • Fly on the Wall Press • Héloïse Press • Hope Road • Ignota • Inkandescent • Iron Press • Istros Books • Lantana Publishing • Lolli Editions • Lucent Dreaming • Makina Books • Mechanics Institute Review • mslexia • Myrmidon Books • Neem Tree Press • New Writing North • Nine Arches Press • Nordisk Books • Offord Road Books • Out-Spoken Press • Papillote Press • Partus Press • Patrician Press • Peepal Tree Press • Penned In The Margins • Poetry Book Society • Poetry Ireland • Poetry Translation Centre • Prototype Publishing • Salmon Publishing • Scratch Books • Scotland Street Press • Seren • Sidekick Books • Silver Press • Skein Press • Smokestack Books • Stonewood Press • Story Machine • The Emma Press • The New Menard Press • The Poetry Business • the87press • Tilted Axis Press • Two Rivers Press • UEA Publishing Project • Ugly Duckling Presse • V&Q Books • Valley Press • Verve Poetry Press • Waywiser • Wrecking Ball Press • Y Lolfa • Ze Books
Confidentiality requires us not to disclose some of our other multinational North American clients' identities, but they are happy to provide private references on request.