Research & request audiobook rights
Lit-X Research & request audiobook rights provides you with a title-centric view into the international book markets of the United States and Germany. It provides a unique perspective on developing audiobook trends and unparalleled transparency on titles, authors, and publishers.
Lit-X Research & request audiobook rights allows you to identify trending titles for which no audiobook version exists yet. You can validate the trendiness of identified potential audiobook titles through the social media mentions of the author, the author's social media following, as well as the volume of online searches for the respective author. Through this, you'll be able to efficiently and effectively find titles to request audiobook rights for.
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This is how the use case looks like
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The full Research & request audiobook rights dashboard allows you to keep tabs on trending titles in your focus genre to understand changing trends, to identify internationally trending titles in any genre or topic to purchase audiobook rights, and to validate a title's trend through social media mentions, author following, and online search volume.
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You can filter the data by up to three genre levels that correspond to leading genre structures in the industry, and the recommended reading age for children's books. You can further filter by language the title is published in, whether a title already has a audiobook publication or not (various formats), if it's been published as an eBook only, and months since release of the title. Moreover, you can filter by the average rating the title has received across multiple platforms, the success accumulated since publishing, and the social media reach in the last three months.
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You can see for each title 1) the last month's change in success and 2) the full-time success. 1) describes how many new ratings, reviews, etc. a title has gained in the last month. This is a strong indicator of a potential trend in development. The higher, the more readers purchase, read, and speak about the title right now. 2) describes how much success a title has gained since its release. This is an indicator of the overall level of success a title has been able to achieve. The higher, the more readers haven purchased, read, and spoken about the title since it's release.
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You can validate how trending a title is through the number of mentions of the author on social media, the search volume for the author in search engines and the social media followers of the author.
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You can use our 10-word summaries to quickly grasp what a title is about, compare it to other titles you are interested in, and develop a gut feeling for any content-driven similarities between selected titles. Moreover, you can create your own watchlist, and save and share it, to keep track of the most promising titles.
The tool offers convenient features to save time
Save different views
Once set filters can be saved in individual views. This allows you to define various applications for yourself which you can easily access with one click. You can jump between views, e.g., "Find German TikTok bookfluencers in Romance" and "Find American Youtube bookfluencers in Young Adult"
Subscribe to updates
You can define e-mail subscriptions for any view you saved. The e-mail contains a PDF or screenshot of the dashboard with your selected view. You can choose how often you want to receive those subscription e-mails and manage them at any time. This helps you to get a quick overview "has anything changed"? And if so, jump into the tool to dive deeper.
Share with colleagues
You can share any saved view with other licensed colleagues to collaborate on a project. Start a data-driven conversation, provide argumentation for a request or help them out with their own assignments.
The use case provides you with everything you need
Collapsible content
Data scope
We constantly extend our data scope. Depending on the data type, the scope may vary marginally. Currently, we cover the following data scope:
- Countries: Germany, United States
- Titles: All titles generally available
- Authors: All authors generally available
- Genres: Children's, Crime, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult, Thriller; all genres are limited to story-telling sub-genres, excluding, e.g., educational materials
- Genres hierarchy: We provide a three-level genre hierarchy that is adjusted to industry standards across providers and can be individualized in a Custom use case:
- Level 1, e.g., "Thrillers"
- Level 2, e.g., "Thrillers - Supernatural"
- Level 3, e.g., "Thrillers - Supernatural - Vampires"
- Data types: Publisher, author, author gender, title, topic, various success metrics, ratings, reviews, price, product variants, popularity (custom use cases include many additional data types depending on individual request)
- Sources: We collect data from dozens of sources including but not limited to major online shops, review communities, agent communities, individual publishers, distributors, agent and author pages, social media platforms, text aggregators, and industry associations.
- Updates: Data is generally updated once per month. Social Media data is updated continuously, aiming for weekly updates.
Data quality
Our data runs through an extensive quality control process. We capture all potential issues in an automated and reliable way. Issues addressed are constantly being updated, since we continuously increase our data quality further, dive deeper into the data and explore more use cases.
Common issues include misspellings (e.g., Stefen King), different ways of writing names (e.g., H. P. Lovecraft vs. HP Lovecraft), data gaps in our input sources (e.g., no price available), wrong data in our input sources (e.g., miss categorized: "The Gift" in "Gift books" instead of "Thriller"), and many more.
Data visualization
To give access to our data and visualize it, we use a tool called "Tableau"
Tableau is a well-established tool for precisely our purpose; it focuses on easy handling, a self-explanatory user experience, and provides a lot of helpful material.
We guarantee that everyone who can use a computer can use and understand Tableau.
Should you struggle - we are here to help, just shoot us a message.
Also, there is a lot of guided courses ranging from general introductions to solutions to specific problems available:
- Tableau's own education offering
- Introduction to Tableau on Datacamp
- Udemy overview of Tableau courses
- A variety of Tableau self-help videos on Youtube
Updates
- Updates are generally done on a monthly basis
- Updates imply a data pull from all available sources
- Updated data doesn't overwrite previous data but is appended to it, building a transparent timeline and adding value to the data
- Social media data is continuously updated, aiming for a weekly update circle
Success definition
- It includes a reader perception component that measures how well a book is received by the readership based on ratings and reviews
- It includes an approximation of actual sales based on price, number and value of ratings, reviews, bestseller list entries, and more
Start benefitting now, personally, and as publisher
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Sold books
Start selling better due to finding more trending titles.
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Stop manually trying to find the next trending title to acquire. Stop trying to create trends out of nothing with titles you personally like. Stop blindly trusting your scouts and agents about what is trending content and what is not.
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Start building a trend-oriented portfolio of titles that sell well because they fit current trends. Start scanning international markets in a structured way to identify the most promising opportunities.
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Robust decisions
Talk facts not fragmented and individual perceptions.
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Stop relying on manual research that only touches upon 5% of available data to identify trending titles. Stop limiting yourself to one or two data sources. Stop being influenced by your own personal preferences and biases.
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Start using current, complete, structured, and searchable data to make your decisions. Form an educated opinion and then make robust decisions.
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Time saving
Use Lit-X for 15 minutes instead of spending hours on Amazon.
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Stop randomly browsing online shops and community platforms, trying to get an overview of the market. Stop trying to keep notes on what was hot two weeks ago, so you can identify upcoming trends.
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Start working with tailored, international, and always up-to-date data that helps you to answer your questions. Leverage the convenience of a visualizing tool to manage this vast amount of data for you.
