About TitlePage
What is TitlePage?
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 to booksellers and suppliers. Titlepage was launched in September 2004 by the Australian Publishers Association to provide:
- a single search repository of all titles available in Australia and publisher/distributor information
- a user-friendly price and availability service to enable searching on titles available in Australia
- a cost effective service for booksellers, suppliers, publishers and distributors.
How can TitlePage help me?
Booksellers and
suppliers can use TitlePage to access accurate price and 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.
Publishers and
distributors using TitlePage have found that calls to their customer service centres have reduced in duration and the content of the call is more concerned with ordering or progress queries rather than information queries. In addition, bookseller and suppliers are discovering some publisher's titles for the first time by using this industry-wide service.
Who's involved?
The following
publishers generously provided funding for the build 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
Since the launch of the site in September 2004, many more publishers and distributors have joined the service. For a full list of TitlePage publishers and distributors
click here.
The following
booksellers and
suppliers helped the APA in the testing and development of TitlePage prior to its launch:
- Abbey's Bookshop
- American Book Store
- Angus & Robertson
- Better Read than Dead
- Collins
- Dymocks
- Gleebooks
- James Bennett
- James Cook University Bookshop
- Leading Edge Books
- Mary Martin Bookshops
- Mercury Retail
- Pages & Pages Booksellers
- Queensland University of Technology Bookshop
- Riverbend Books
- Seekmedia
- UNSW Bookshop
- Unleash Books
How can I become part of TitlePage?
If you are an Australian or New Zealand
bookseller and are actively trading with an Australian publisher or distributor you can register for free access at
www.titlepage.com. Australian
library employees are also eligible for free access.
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. They also need to be a member of the Australian Publishers Association. For more information please email
titlepage@publishers.asn.au or phone +61 2 9281 9788.
What do booksellers and suppliers think of the service?
Increasingly, booksellers and suppliers are using TitlePage as their primary source of price and availability information.
"It's a great service which is improving all the time. I feel confident about the accuracy of the data." A&R
"TitlePage is a fabulous service - we can't wait for all publishers to join." Avid Reader
It's an excellent service, my staff love it and it's saving us lots of time." Coop Bookshop
"TitlePage enables us to provide accurate information on the availability of titles and likely supply times [at weekends]. Accurate access to suppliers' information is invaluable." Dymocks
"We love TitlePage!" Gleebooks
"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
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 located
here.
