TitlePage is the data, pricing and availability service for the Australian and New Zealand book industry – with over one and a half million titles currently listed.
Users can quickly find stock, check pricing, look up title information and help source titles for customers and borrowers 24/7, minimising price and availability queries received by publishers and distributors.
TitlePage is industry owned and operated, and benefits from ongoing development that brings the latest global supply chain enhancements to the Australian and New Zealand markets.
Bookshops and libraries can access TitlePage and its extensive bibliographic data for free, with over 3,200 weekly users of the service across Australia and New Zealand. Other industry organisations such as festivals and media may also apply for a free TitlePage library account.
Publishers and distributors can list and promote their titles through TitlePage, with the service available via subscription to APA and PANZ members.
TitlePage provides:
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single search access to all titles available in Australia, and a growing number in New Zealand
- access to increasing amounts of bibliographic metadata
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full publisher and distributor information
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a user-friendly price and availability service
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a cost effective service for booksellers, suppliers, publishers and distributors
- flexible access to TitlePage data via API connections
More information, including how to subscribe and use the service, can be found through the following pages:
Benefits of using TitlePage
For publishers and distributors
With over 1,700 daily and 3,200 weekly users, TitlePage allows publishers to promote and share information about their books 24/7 to a large customer base across Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Publishers using TitlePage find that calls to their customer service centres are reduced in number and duration, with callers more likely to be placing orders than asking about availability.
The average monthly traffic for the TitlePage website includes:
- Over 400,000 searches
- Over 700,000 page views
- More than 130,000 user sessions
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13:04 minutes spent on the site per session
Usage figures increase considerably over October to December, rising to over 115,000 searches/week.
For bookshops, libraries and suppliers
With more than 1.5 million titles listed from over 180 publishers and distributors, TitlePage is a comprehensive resource on the books and resources available in Australia, and increasingly Aotearoa/New Zealand.
TitlePage’s price, availability and bibliographic information is available to users 24/7. This data can also be integrated into your existing systems through API connections.
The ability to access this dataon weekends and outside normal business hours means that bookshops and suppliers can provide better service to their customers, saving time in dealing with enquiries.
TitlePage registration and fees
For publishers and distributors
Publishers and distributors pay an annual subscription to list their titles on TitlePage, and must also be members of the APA in Australia or PANZ in New Zealand.
The annual subscription fee is calculated based on the publisher or distributor's turnover, plus the number of titles to be listed on TitlePage (at a rate of $0.12/title).
Learn more about the process of signing up to TitlePage as a publisher or distributor:
TitlePage for publishers and distributors
For end users
TitlePage is a free service for bookshops, suppliers and libraries.
Other industry organisations, like festivals and media, may also apply for a free TitlePage library account.
Learn more about registering to use TitlePage and using the service:
TitlePage for bookshops, libraries and suppliers
Management and development
TitlePage is owned and operated by the Australian Publishers Association.
Development of TitlePage commenced in late 2003 with funding from:
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Allen & Unwin
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Cambridge University Press
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Hachette Australia
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HarperCollins Publishers Australia
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John Wiley & Sons
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Macmillan: Macmillan Education, Macquarie Library, Palgrave Macmillan & Pan Macmillan
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Pearson: Pearson Education & Penguin Books
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Random House Australia