Unilit, a major publisher, faced metadata management challenges with over 1,000 titles across various imprints. By centralizing and automating processes with Holnix, they streamlined operations, ensuring consistent ONIX metadata and eliminating manual updates. This transformation significantly enhanced efficiency and prepared them for future catalog innovations to boost their B2B sales strategy.
Unilit is a leading publisher with an extensive and dynamic catalog. Alongside their main imprint, Editorial Unilit, they oversee the distribution and metadata of other key brands such as Editorial CLC and Peniel. Altogether, they manage an active volume exceeding 1,000 titles.
The Challenge: Metadata Complexity at Scale For a publisher handling over a thousand books and three distinct imprints, metadata management can quickly become an operational bottleneck. Before centralizing their catalog, the team faced typical industry challenges:
- Manual and fragmented information updates (prices, descriptions, book covers, and stock).
- Difficulty maintaining ONIX metadata consistency across all distributors and points of sale.
- Countless operational hours lost sending spreadsheets and manual updates to bookstores.
The Solution: Centralization and Automation with Holnix By integrating with Holnix, Unilit transformed how they manage their publishing catalog. The platform provided a single source of truth for their entire ecosystem:
- Imprint Unification: Editorial Unilit, CLC, and Peniel now coexist in a single organized environment, allowing the team to manage the specific needs of each imprint without juggling multiple platforms.
- Automated Distribution (ONIX): By uploading and updating their catalog on Holnix, metadata is automatically processed and structured to industry standards, ready to be consumed by any bookstore or distributor.
- Direct Connection to Points of Sale: Bookstores working with Unilit titles can now seamlessly synchronize the entire catalog (images, synopses, prices) directly into their online stores (WooCommerce, Shopify, Magento) using Holnix native plugins, eliminating the friction of manual uploads.
Today, Unilit flawlessly manages over 1,000 titles on Holnix. They have drastically reduced the operational time spent on manual updates and ensured their commercial network always has accurate, real-time information.
Furthermore, with the upcoming launch of Holnix’s new catalog creation tool, Unilit will be able to design custom digital commercial catalogs (by season, imprint, or theme) in a matter of minutes, further empowering their B2B sales strategy.