Madrigall & Eden Livres
digital context and prospects
European Digital Distributors Meeting
Madrid, June 11th
Madrigall
Eden Livres
Prospects
1st European Digital Distributors Meeting, Madrid, June 11th
I.
Madrigall
Some datas
• Third publishing group in France and first independant one
• Includes publishing houses, distribution, diffusion, bookstores
• 11 subsidiaries companies (Gallimard, Flammarion,
Casterman, J’ai Lu, POL, Mercure de France, Denoël, etc.)
• 3 000 first releases per year
• A 50 000 titles backlist
• All sectors covered with the exception of education, technical
and juridic. Historicaly strong in fiction, humanities,
documents.
Some datas
Since 2009 our ebooks catalog grows constantly
• 16 000 ebooks today
• Available in about 120 ebookstores
• Through two main platforms
– Izneo for comics (distribution and retail)
– Eden Livres for the rest (distribution)
Some datas
Today we sell mainly
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Fantasy
Erotic
Romance
Contemporary fiction
Some datas
Best selling logic is
even stronger in
digital, with
difficulties to sell our
backlist except for
series.
Some datas
Young fictions and comics
suffer the Apple’s
monopoly on illustrated
ebooks.
Context and stakes
Closed ecosystems > fight for interoperability
Monopolies > defend bookstores and libraries
Copyright exceptions > adapt the law
Piracy > provide tools to publishers and authors
Legal risks and concurency constraints > develop new models
Costs > control the investment
Loss of value of our contents on Internet > enhance our offer
and find growth areas
• Selfpublishing, resale, loan, etc. > extend our services
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First answer: our offer
Considering our offer, we want to
• make it available
– Garantee multisupports publications, both for first releases and
backlist, in interoperable formats
• anime it
– Build a strong commercial animation, through pertinent prescriptors
– From b to c download to new models
• enhance it
– Provide not only homothetic ebooks: enhanced epubs, applications,
websites
– Open more countries and currencies
– Give more services
We try to provide tools
• Process and structuration (rights and files)
• Common tools to create, control and inform about all the
aspects of our ebooks
• Build databases to brodcast our contents, empowering our
ability to manage it (files and medatada flow, scalability)
• Websites, new channels
• Develop strong and flexible platforms such as Izneo, Eden
Livres
II.
Eden Livres
A tool and a partnership: Eden Livres & De Marque
• Eden Livres is not only a tool, it’s a partnership
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Strong coordination with De Marque
User friendly, powerfull understanding of publishers needs
Technical side : flexible, mutualized, iterative
Support (not only technical, but also political), of the
diversification of the channels, through bookstores and
libraries: IDPF, Readium, PNB, MO3T, etc.
• With a powerful sharing of means (Canada, France,
Italy, etc.)
Eden Livres principles
• 2 main shareholders
– Madrigall and Seuil La Martinière
Service provider for diffusions and distributors
We don’t sell books, we distribute
We want to keep trades separated
Give to publishers the ability to manage all their ebooks life
(contents, reports, inputs / outputs, etc.)
• Provide services on digital but also on paper
• Not only a tool but a chance for interprofessional maters:
Readium, IDPF, PNB, MO3T, etc.
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Eden Livres catalogs and clients
- 32 000 titles from 17 main clients (diffusions)
- 256 publishers
- 503 ebookstores with a webservice integration
- « push » platforms (
etc.)
- Non commercial partners
Gallica (BNF), medias, websites, etc.
- more than 50 countries and 10 currencies
- Deposit, safety, self generated content and referencing
Eden Livres catalogs and clients
Digitalisation is still a priority for the publishers and we notice a
stable growth of the catalogs
Eden Livres current works
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Improvement of the integration to the existent network
Extend the network with new channels & partners
Integrate commercial and financial information and reports
Notify and provide information to publishers
Synthetise information (dashboards, BI tools)
Automate the actions (check, deposit, sending, etc.) : today we release
more than 100 actions for each book deposit
Support the ecosystem evolution (Readium JS, CLIL version 2, Onix 3.0.1)
Optimize the relation with operators
Ex : an improved integration with our partners
contents
files
action
Send
cases
Epub, PDF, MOBI, AUDIO FILE, IBA file,
KF8, etc.
Reception & traitment
metadatas
Online
« the publisher put the book on sale »
Update
« the publisher needs to replace a file »
Send
Onix 3.0, 3.0.1, specific metadatas flow,
etc.
Reception & traitment
Online
« the publisher put the books on sale »
Update
« non available » > « on sale »
« forthcoming » > « on sale »
« pre-order » > « on sale »
« on sale » > « out of sale » (withdrawal)
Price modification
Date modification
Status modification
Others
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Gestion
Y/N
Mode
Auto / Man
timing
Immediate / 1pMM /
1pH / 1pD / 1pW / 1pM
Ex : an improved integration with our partners
Gestion
Editorial
Contents
Goog delivery of the content on Eden
Good delivery on the partner’s platform
File compliance
Metadatas compliance
Content processing
DRM processing
Imput from partner’s platform on the status
Backoffice to control
Statistic
Daily sales per channels and devices
Daily sales per countries
Financial
Monthly reports per channels and devices
Monthly reports per countries
Information
Y/N
Format
Timing
API / reports / etc.
Immediate / 1pMM /
1pH / 1pD / 1pW /
1pM
III.
Somes prospects
Eden Livres : some prospects
• New clients (small and medium publishers)
• New channels : b to b, libraries, end users,
subscription, etc
• Enhance the content : applications, executable, datas
etc.)
• Diversify the services
– Not only sales related
– Proofs, pre and post consumer order, etc.
Eden Livres : some prospects
• The solution has to be flexible (if the global context changes)
• Integrated with paper workflows and trades
• Scalable : codistribution agreements
• Business intelligence
Our agenda in 2014
• Digital in libraries : « Prêt numérique en bibliothèques »
• Readium fondation
– LCP
– Readium JS
• Anti Piracy tools
• « RELIRE » project
• Etc.