House style · p. 3Only she knows the house style by heart.
The managing editor has carried it in her head for twenty years. The official PDF dates from 2014, the exceptions agreed since are in her emails, and every new editor interrupts her ten times a day.
Industries Publishers
Every book has its own rules. Now the whole house knows them.
Contracts, foreign rights, royalty statements, house style and title sheets in one place, with the clause and the page. New editors find the answer without interrupting the person who's been there twenty years.
Free. Sign in with Google, Microsoft or an email link. The welcome page is in Italian, the Eko answers in English.
The problem
Sound familiar?
“Can we do the e-book?”
The contract is from 2009, scanned, and the digital rights are in a side letter. To answer, someone spends an afternoon in the archive.
Every release, the same details retyped.
Sales sheet, back cover copy, press release, data for the distributor: all copied by hand, until the price or the release date no longer match.
Every day
The questions that all go through one person today.
With ekory they get an answer in seconds, with the source. Evenings and weekends too.
Try asking
- What's missing before this title goes to print?
- How much do we owe the author for this half year?
- When do the Spanish rights revert to us?
- Draft the sales sheet for the reps.
- What did we promise the author for the launch?
- Do we already have something like this on our list?
How it works
One Eko for each desk. The same rules for everyone.
Eko Editorial For editors and copy editors House style, production steps and submissions under review, plus a short course for new editors.
Eko Contracts For rights and accounts Author and translator contracts, foreign rights deals and royalty statements, with the clause.
Eko Catalog For sales and publicity Sales sheets, back covers and press releases on your templates, and what's already been done for each author.
Control
Shared where it helps, private where it matters.
- Advances and royalty rates are visible only to whoever handles contracts.
- Freelance editors and translators see the house style and the titles they work on.
- Only the people you choose can correct an Eko, and the fix applies to everyone.
Questions
What publishers ask before they start.
Can it read old scanned contracts, sales spreadsheets and contracts in other languages?
Yes. ekory reads PDFs (scanned ones too), Word, Excel and presentations, and answers in your language even when the contract with a foreign publisher is in German or Spanish, citing the original clause and page. Ekos also draft sales sheets, back covers and press releases on your templates, in the house's voice: whoever signs them reviews them before they go out.
Can we keep advances and fees confidential?
Yes. In ekory you create a group for editorial, one for rights and one for publicity, and share with each only its own folders: advances, royalty rates and translators' fees stay with the people who should see them. Freelancers can get just the house style and the titles they work on. Everyone's conversations stay private.
Do we have to move our catalog and contracts?
No. ekory reads files where they already are, in Google Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive or Notion, plus the catalog on your website. It stays up to date when a new contract or sheet arrives, without modifying your files. For the archive on your office server there's the company file server connection, which opens no access from outside.
How much does it cost for a 10-person publisher?
For a 10-person publisher the total is €299 a month, excluding VAT: €199 for the platform plus €100 for the people. Pay annually and you pay for 10 months out of 12. The pricing page works it out for your team.
What about copyright? Will our authors' texts be used to train AI?
No: with ekory your content is never used to train AI models, and that's written into our contracts with the AI providers, including Google. Using an Eko on your contracts, catalog and procedures is about answering your team, not about training a model on your authors' work. Your data is stored in Europe, each Eko reads only the folders you give it, and conversations stay private. More in our article on AI for publishers and literary agencies.
Every company is different. Tell ekory about yours.
Just say what you do, how big your team is and where your documents live: an Eko shows you what changes for you, with examples from your industry and the source of every answer.
Free. Sign in with a Google or Microsoft account, or with a link sent by email. The welcome page is in Italian; ask in English and the Eko answers in English.
Other industries
The same method, in other trades.
- Literary agencies Rights, contracts and royalty statements for the whole catalog, in one place.
- Trade associations Circulars and member services, with answers ready at any hour.
- Nonprofits Procedures, grants and volunteer training, without losing the people who know.
- Manufacturing Every showroom gets finishes, sizes and prices right, and your network learns every new collection.
- Machinery and plants When a machine stops, the fix arrives right away, on every shift.
- Construction Specifications, safety plans and change orders for every site, on a tablet.
Tell us about your next release. We'll show you the contract, house style and sales sheet in one place.
For the first call, a publishing contract and your house style are all we need.