TitlePage, the industry's online price & availability service

TitlePage is the Australian book industry's online price and availability service. It allows publishers and distributors to offer current price, availability and stock information free to booksellers and suppliers at www.titlepage.com.

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DataPage is a comprehensive title data download service. It has been developed in response to requests from booksellers to be able to download title information en masse - rather than on a title-by-title basis, which is the case with the free TitlePage service available to booksellers.

DataPage draws its data from the same database as TitlePage, and it is a subscription-based service. Fees vary according to the number of records downloaded and any customisation required by the subscribing bookseller.

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TitlePage

What is TitlePage?
Why will TitlePage be beneficial?
Who is involved?
What do booksellers and suppliers think of TitlePage?
How is the TitlePage being used?
What do I need to do to use TitlePage?
What is ONIX?
What will it cost me to be part of TitlePage?
How do I find out more?

What is TitlePage?

TitlePage.com is the Australian book industry's online price and availability service, which allows publishers and distributors to offer current price, availability and stock information free to booksellers and suppliers.

TitlePage was launched in September 2004 and currently has over 3200 booksellers and suppliers using the service on a daily basis and 123 publisher and distributor members listing over over 902,000 titles.

Why was TitlePage built?
When was TitlePage launched?
Download the TitlePage launch presentation for background on the project

Why will TitlePage be beneficial?

Publishers using TitlePage have found that calls to their customer service centres have reduced in number and duration and the content of the call is more concerned with ordering or progress queries rather than information queries. In addition, booksellers and suppliers are discovering some publishers' titles for the first time by using this industry-wide service.

Booksellers can use TitlePage to get accurate price, availability and bibliographic information 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Booksellers have reported that access to the service outside normal business hours and on weekends has improved customer service and is saving them considerable time and money in dealing with P&A enquiries.

Who is involved?

View the list of publishers currently live on TitlePage.

The following publishers generously provided funding for the development of TitlePage:

• Allen & Unwin
• Cambridge University Press
• HarperCollins
• Hachette Australia
• John Wiley & Sons
• Macmillan: Macmillan Education, Macquarie Library, Palgrave Macmillan & Pan Macmillan
• Pearson: Pearson Education & Penguin Books
• Random House

Twenty key booksellers and suppliers were also involved in the testing and development of TitlePage.

Since the launch of the service in September 2004 many more publishers and distributors have joined the service. For a full list of TitlePage publishers and distributors click here.

What do booksellers & suppliers think of TitlePage?

Twenty key booksellers and suppliers were involved in the development of TitlePage and since launch over 1300 bookshops have registered to use the service. Here's what some of them have to say:

"TitlePage is wonderful and saves us an immeasurable amount of time. I think it is the best thing to happen in the 20 years I have worked in the industry." Griffiths Bookshop

"TitlePage is a fabulous service - we can't wait for all publishers to join." Avid Reader

"TitlePage is fantastic. It's so easy and convenient to use that I don't know how I used to manage without it." Dymocks

"It's an excellent service, my staff love it and it's saving us lots of time." Co-op Bookshop

Download more bookseller comments on TitlePage (updated September 2005).

How is TitlePage being used?

TitlePage currently represents >90% of the publishing industry by turnover, and is reaching >85% of the bookselling market. Increasingly, booksellers and suppliers are using TitlePage as their primary source of price and availability information. TitlePage is receiving over 7.2 million hits per month from users.

What do I need to do to use TitlePage?

Booksellers need to go to www.titlepage.com and register for an account. Assuming you are an Australian bookseller and are actively trading with an Australian publisher or distributor your account will be activated within 2 business days.

Publishers and distributors can become part of TitlePage by paying a low-cost annual subscription based on their turnover and the number of titles they wish to list on TitlePage. They also need to be a member of the Australian Publishers Association. To list titles they must own or control the exclusive copyright in Australia in the title.

Publishers or their distributors need to provide ONIX records for their titles.  Larger publishers and distributors can upload their titles and amendments therto via a secure FTP access point.  Independent publishers with a relatively small number of titles can upload single title information using the tool available online at the TitlePage website.

What is ONIX?

ONIX is an International Standard for storing and sharing title information between publishers, distributors and booksellers. The APA has been encouraging the adoption of ONIX as a way of helping sell more books and have a range of resources to help you become ONIX compliant. Visit the APA's ONIX website to find out more.

What will it cost me to use TitlePage?

Booksellers can access TitlePage free of charge for P&A information queries. Go to www.titlepage.com to register.

TitlePage is available to publishers on a low-cost subscription basis. Please contact titlepage@publishers.asn.au for more details.

How do I find out more?

For further information please email titlepage@publishers.asn.au or phone +61 (2) 9281 9788. You can also read the Sydney Morning Herald / The Age article about TitlePage.