Content Distribution And Sale

Many companies have successfully transferred or invented a business model to make money from selling content and other kinds of intellectual property over the Web. These include book and periodical publishers, database and archive aggregators, directories, multi-media providers and, increasingly, companies that sell byproducts of their direct products for additional revenue.

For example, software vendors sell special-purpose service advice and subscriptions to their knowledge bases.

The Web distribution and sale of digital content offer a wide variety of business models and underlying technical implementations. A correctly chosen model can (and does) generate many time more revenue while costing many times less than an approach provided without sufficient experience and foresight.

Subscriptions, Pay-Per-View, Consortia, OpenURL, Standardized Access, Concurrency control, Download limits, Digital Rights Management, WebServices; SOA, Back-end integration, Cross-sale and upsell, RSS, targeted Search and Navigation, search engine optimization and advertising, secondary delivery channels such as voice and handheld devices – these are just some of the considerations that need to be taken into account when designing or upgrading an Information Commerce system.

Kanda Software has the experience to help you sort through the technical and business issues to end up with the system that best meets your needs.

Kanda has built systems that meet the most stringent content delivery requirements. We also package support for additional functionality, including email publishing, on-demand printing, streaming, edge distribution via Akamai’s services, interactive content in Flash and other media.

Our experience in Content Distribution and Sale is far ranging and covers multiple industries:

• Kanda created a Business Intelligence Distribution system that grew from $10M to $60M to over $100M in revenue in three years.

• Kanda created successful eCommerce Archives for many leading periodical publications and syndications. Our products are subscribed to by thousands of Universities, tens of thousands of Schools, and hundreds of thousands of individuals. They generate millions of dollars of annual revenue to the content providers. (Kanda has produced archives that add high value to the Web sites of numerous clients, including Commentary, The Nation, AJC, NACLA, and EthnicNewswatch (ProQuest).

• Kanda developed a hybrid on-line off-line reference materials distribution system for a large book publisher.

• Kanda created a leading Knowledge Base for Pharmaceutical Industry.

• Working with the U.S. Army, Kanda developed a system for sharing information related to armaments and armament procurement among the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Air Force for collection, analysis and update on a highly sensitive, as needed basis.