Tool Sprawl Risk Audit — Publishing

Find out how much spreadsheet and SaaS sprawl is costing Publishing — and where a purpose-built internal tool pays off.

Signs of tool sprawl in Publishing

Catalog management is split across acquisitions, editorial, production, and rights systems with inconsistent metadata — the same title has three different BISAC codes, two different ISBNs across formats, and incomplete territory rights that block international sales.
Royalty calculation is a quarterly nightmare — escalating royalty rates, reserve-against-returns, foreign-rights splits, and audiobook revenue share are tracked in a 1990s system plus a spreadsheet plus a senior royalty analyst's memory.
Rights and licensing operations are still email-driven — a film/TV option request bounces between subsidiary rights, the agent, and the legal department for weeks before anyone can answer 'is this available in this territory?'
Editorial production workflow (manuscript intake, copyediting, typesetting, proofreading, ebook conversion) has 40+ handoffs and lives on email plus shared drives — schedule slips compound and titles miss seasonal sales windows.

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Source of Truth

Whether your operational data lives in one place or is scattered across tools.

1.Where does your core operational data live?

2.How many tools/spreadsheets hold 'the truth' for one workflow?

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