Publishing enterprise management solution for the modern book publisher

The enterprise publishing software built for change

Trade, academic, scholarly and children's publishers of all sizes around the world trust Consonance® to be their partner in change. Built to adapt to every emerging complexity of modern publishing, Consonance's all-in-one title management platform features everything you need to streamline your ops, eliminate duplication, untangle complexity and sell more books. Consonance is the technology of choice for ambitious publishers who need a rock-solid, trustworthy back-office system that flexes to underpin real-life business at speed and scale.

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Beautiful interface + resilient codebase + deep publishing know-how.
We're your secret advantage.

A Consonance® work overview page, with the edge of the page peeled up to reveal some Ruby code underneath. Features highlighted: One price, all features – no expensive upgrades; Metadata, ONIX, rights, royalties, project management, production and reporting; Standards plus your own way; Secure, accessible, high quality, beautiful; One team, one truth; Plus so flexible under the hood.

Consonance vs. others: how do you decide?

Are you thinking “Don't all these systems provide basically the same thing – ONIX feeds, project management, CRM, production, rights and royalties?” No: Consonance gives you more, for less. Here's a trio of Consonance benefits: it makes complexity manageable; it's entirely integrated; and our support transcends support – it's more like having your own personal technical consultant who can actually make changes to your data and app according to changing business requirements – all as part of the low £75/user/month licence fee. Consonance means you are more profitable, with less effort.

Complexity made manageable

Your Consonance account contains all features by default. There are no extra-cost, have-to-keep-signing-in-to modules – because we want no impediment to you having your metadata, project management, production, address book, rights & royalties in one place.

We've built the interface to be delightful both visually and via screenreader, keeping the vast complexity of thousands of data elements, ONIX configurations, data records and project management movements out of the way, until you want to see them.

Consonance has all the features you need to calmly project-manage complex publication programmes, handle new and emerging requirements, and extract maximum value from your IP in sales, rights and OA downloads. And it does it by giving you the breathing space to see patterns, not noise.

When you're facing new business challenges and opportunities – complying with emerging EU legislation, for example, or entering new markets and doing new formats such as audio – we are your partner of choice. Read our case studies to see how we support Taylor and Francis in sending millions of data records to and from their global "hub"; Burleigh Dodds in their "remix" model; and Liverpool University Press in their "distributed press" initiative.

Integrated from top to bottom

Manuscript delivery dates that drive to-dos. Market-specific publication dates that appear on ABIs, catalogues, spreadsheet exports and in myriad flavours of ONIX. Multi-level sales channels that bring forecasts, actuals and royalty statements together. Head contracts whose "gratis copy" sections link to your copy tracker. Ebook files whose tables of contents are used to build the table of contents in your metadata feed. Metadata pages that use our own GraphQL API – used in turn by our clients to fuel their own apps, using their own Consonance data. Configured data feeds that get your data where it needs to be: your websites, retailers, trading partners, aggregators and data repositories.

When we say Consonance is your "one version of the truth", it's literal: there's no spaghetti-code damaging your data's integrity, under the hood, which you see in legacy systems that struggle to accommodate change. For instance, our market-leading data modelling means all formats have parity – there's no sense that audio books are a bolt-on. You enter an ISBN-13, or a price, or a short description, or a print spec and in Consonance it's stored once, referenced everywhere. (Ask us how we dynamically convert your list price on the fly in data feeds to accommodate Apple price point revisions and local VAT rule updates, for instance!)

Relied on for support excellence

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

How can we make changes to the app so readily, to support your emerging requirements? We invest daily in writing, maintaining and running hundreds of thousands of lines of test code, which we use as a quality gate for every change to our codebase as well as extensive checks by our team – so we can move fast without breaking things, backed by robust processes that conform to our quality and security certifications. We don't use any generative AI in our processes or app, because we rather like to know what our code is doing and where it came from.

Innovative, intelligent automations, informed by a deep understanding of the emerging 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 code-lists 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

Relied on by publishers around the world.

Consonance enables our clients to deliver against their unique business strategies.

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
Reformation Heritage
National Library of Australia Press
Higher Life

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.