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Content Availability

Business Rules​

The Bookshop business model involves two sides:

  • A content owner who wants to share its content for other stores to sell.
  • A store that wants to sell third-party content (as a bookshop).

Publica.la supports a platform where these actors can find themselves in a safe environment and manage the complete process, from content upload to sale and consumption.

About duplicated content​

Two different content owners can share the same content in the marketplace. This is possible because the external_id code is required to be unique within the same tenant, but different tenants are allowed to upload the same external_id.

When duplicated content is detected in the marketplace, only one of them is displayed in the list of available content. We select the content with the best discount for the bookshop. The other content is hidden, and the bookshop can't access it.

How to access the hidden content​

In the Nova dashboard of a bookshop, there is an option to access the hidden content.

To do this, follow these instructions:

  1. Go to the Nova dashboard of the content owner.
  2. Navigate to Resources > Issues > Marketplace.
  3. Click on the filter icon and select Show all issues in the Marketplace.
  4. There is a field called Visible, which indicates whether the content is hidden (❌) or visible (✅) to the bookshop admin.
  5. Proceed as usual.

About the Previews​

The content in the Marketplace has a preview available. Every bookshop is able to change the availability and the request for sign-in.

Bookshops can do this content by content or in bulk through a bulk update.

This configuration doesn't affect the content owner, who can manage the preview and request for sign-in of their content independently of what the bookshops do with the same content taken from the marketplace.

This setting applies only in the specific bookshop environment. If two bookshops have taken the same content from the marketplace, they can decide what to do with this content independently, and the configuration of one will not affect the other (nor will it affect the content owner).

How to Upload Content to the Marketplace​

Using the Tenant's Dashboard​

Every tenant can upload content and set it available for the marketplace. The steps are:

  1. Sign the marketplace contract where the fees, rights, and obligations are specified.
  2. Upload the content to their Publica.la platform.
  3. Update the content in bulk, indicating which content will be available in the marketplace. More information: Help Center Article.

Via ONIX​

If a tenant uses ONIX to ingest the content and you have permission to access the Medusa Nova Dashboard, the steps are:

  1. Sign the marketplace contract where the fees, rights, and obligations are specified.
  2. Enter the Medusa Nova Dashboard.
  3. Go to Resources > ONIX and then click on Content Intakes.
  4. Look for the tenant you want to configure and then click on it.
  5. Go to edit and enable the option Show in marketplace.
note

The content will appear in the marketplace if it is uploaded for the first time or when it is updated. If it is needed to share content in the marketplace that was already uploaded, we can do it through Nova (following the way below).

Via Nova Dashboard​

Publica.la team members are able to upload the content to the marketplace in the Nova Dashboard of the store.

Follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Nova dashboard of the content owner.
  2. Go to Resources > Issues > Issues.
  3. Filter for the content you are looking for.
  4. Select one, more than one, or the entire list of the filtered content.
  5. Go to Action and then Publish on Marketplace.
  6. Select Retail license.
  7. Click on Run Action.
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The action Publish on Marketplace will be available if the selected content belongs to the tenant: license type: owner.

Glossary​

Bookshop: A tenant that takes content from the marketplace to sell it through its Publica.la store. Bookshops are common tenants whose business model, either exclusively or partially, involves selling content from other content owners in the Publica.la network.

Content Owner: A tenant owner of the content that was uploaded to the marketplace.

Marketplace: The place where content owners upload the content they want to be sold by other stores in the Publica.la network, and where bookshops take the content to sell from.

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