Case Study: Children’s Book Publisher achieves 5x distribution growth and saves 20–25 hours per season with Fortra Automate Plus

Children’s Book Publisher Powers Broader Distribution with Automate

A U.S.-based children’s book publisher with five major imprints that produces about 2,000 titles a year and sells primarily to schools and libraries expanded distribution from six resellers to nearly 30 and began shipping a new ePub file type. Manually pulling and distributing metadata and images took 20–25 hours per season, and the CFO spent 3–4 hours weekly extracting sales reports, making the growth unsustainable with existing staff.

By deploying Automate Plus from HelpSystems, the publisher now automatically extracts and delivers files, metadata, and images for each distributor and emails weekly sales reports to the CFO. Distributors receive the correct assets two months faster, the publisher saved the manual 20–25 hours per season, IT is enabled to automate additional processes (including replacing a PowerShell script), and distribution scaled 5x.