CataList digital catalogues are a powerful, affordable online tool for marketing, selling, and ordering books. The system is searchable, interactive, and customizable and its catalogues are easy to build, automatically updated, and can be enhanced with full colour images and multimedia.

Learn more about the benefits for publishers, retailers, and libraries.

Publisher benefits

• Automatic notifications alert book buyers and media when something’s changed.

• Search the entire system across all catalogues to find the book(s) you’re looking for.

• Shared notes and custom catalogues allow reps and publicists to create a more personalized experience for their accounts and contacts.

• Title listings can include multimedia (e.g., interior images and video trailers) so all information is in one place.

• Customizable, exportable order grids can be tailored to each account's preferences.

• CataList partners include NetGalley, APMA, eBOUND, and more. Contact us for more information on partnerships.

• And going digital means going green, saving money on production and shipping, and broadening your reach by being accessible from anywhere.

Retailer benefits

• Catalogues are updated as soon as publishers change any information, so you've always got the most current information.

• Set change notifications to be notified when important information is updated.

• Take advantage of integrations with point-of-sale systems like WordStock.

• Search and browse for titles, and create and export orders directly within the system.

• Create your own custom catalogues, absolutely free.

• CataList has partnerships with many industry associations, making it easy for you to find curated catalogues such as Books For Everybody, Forest of Reading and other awards catalogues, catalogues of regional titles, and more.

Library benefits

• See which print books and ebooks are new and upcoming from multiple Canadian publishers at once

• Easily confirm whether an author or illustrator is Canadian (look for the maple leaf!)

• Enter, manage, and export orders

• Access up-to-date, publisher-supplied bibliographic data, including interior images

• Export BiblioShare’s brief MARC record file for any catalogue

• View e-galleys from NetGalley, where available

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