Search & sign self-publishers
Lit-X Search & sign self-publishers provides you with an author-centric view into the international book markets of the United States and Germany. It provides a unique perspective on developing content trends and unparalleled transparency on titles, authors, and publishers.
Lit-X Search & sign self-publishers allows you to identify internationally trending self-publishers, in terms of gained reader interest, in any genre or topic. You can validate the trendiness of identified self-publishers through their social media mentions, social media following, as well as the volume of online searches for them. Moreover, you can quickly grasp their published title portfolio, enabling you to assess their suitability for you.
You can get multiple tasks done with the same use case
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Just book an introduction and we explain everything step-by-step and at your pace. We provide details and background, dive into the methodology and technology, share implementation best practices and support you along the way towards AI- and data-driven working.
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
Experience an exemplary use case (Trend Scouting)
Start benefitting now, personally, and as publisher
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Sold books
Start selling through the right bookfluencers.
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Stop wondering whether or not bookfluencer marketing could be a way to go for your next titles or to reactivate your backlist. Stop guessing which influencers could reach the right audience with enough reach and engagement.
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Start driving your book sales through hiring the right bookfluencers and track how impactful the investment was in order to optimize your selection continuously.
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Robust decisions
Talk facts not fractual and individual perceptions.
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Stop sharing individual opinions that are based on personal social media feeds influenced my personal web-behavior. Stop making business decisions based on the 5% of information you can manually collect in a realistic timeframe.
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Start using current, complete, structured and searchable social media data to make your decisions. Form an educated opinion and then take robust decisions.
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Time saving
Use the tool for 15 minutes instead of spending an hour on social media.
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Stop randomly browsing social media platforms, trying to navigate them with poorly managed hashtags or video descriptions. Stop consuming irrelevant content in hopes of understanding trends, bookfluencers or finding author/title mentions.
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Start targetedly working with tailored data that helps you to answer your questions. And then use our direct video links to consume only relevant content.