MIDAS - Features
With MIDAS, OverDrive provides the ideal end-to-end retail solution for safe sale and delivery of digital media downloads.
The ultimate in convenience and functionality, MIDAS includes customized websites that are easy for your customers to use.
Manage
- Fully customizable storefront: Reflects your unique branding and design choices. Seamless integration with your main website
or e-commerce location with digital content and secure DRM fulfillment provided by OverDrive.
- Integrated print/digital catalog: Cross-reference between your existing print catalog and your growing eBook collection.
Display content in multiple formats (print/eBooks), let your customers decide which format to purchase!
- Fully scalable solution that will provide ability to add thousands of titles to this system, including additional formats
when available, with no significant degradation in performance.
- Support for multiple digital media formats: Within your catalog you can have eBooks formatted in Microsoft® Reader (.LIT),
Mobipocket Reader (.PRC) and Adobe® eBook Reader (.PDF). Windows Media Audio (.WMA) and Video (.WMV) are also supported.
- Built in support for multi-platform sites (Pocket PC version, Tablet PC version, etc.) and multi-lingual sites (auto-detect
customer's language preference).
- Regular upgrade of MIDAS technology to reflect latest developments in DRM as part of maintenance agreement.
Protect
- Integrated Digital Rights Management (DRM): Titles are protected from unauthorized editing and distribution with integrated
digital rights management technology from Adobe, Microsoft, and Mobipocket.
Fulfill
- Built-in shopping cart: Customers can save digital content to their cart and return to purchase anytime.
- Digital content-specific checkout process: Use a unique checkout process for digital content. No need to capture shipping
addresses or compute shipping charges for eBooks and digital media.
- Advanced search features: Support for title, author, subject, ISBN, publisher, and price searches so customers can search
your entire inventory and find what they need.
- Real-time credit card processing: 24/7 support for major credit cards including MasterCard and Visa.
- Financial transactions can be integrated in existing credit card processing system. All transaction can go directly
into customer's merchant account. USD or selected other currencies available. Taxes can be applied if requested by customer.
- My Bookshelf: Customer can view downloaded titles in their library. Lost or deleted eBooks can be restored.
- Secure Server (SSL): All credit card and transaction information is processed through our secure servers running SSL
(secure socket layer).
Other features for the MIDAS custom digital storefront:
Merchandising, Pricing, and Promotions Direct Buy Link: Each title has its own unique URL link for use in advertising,
email campaigns, and other promotions. Link it to your checkout page to capture the impulse buy.
Title "Spotlight": Show your best-selling or featured titles on the homepage or sidebar of your site.
Customizable Spotlight Descriptions: Promote your titles as Hot Picks, Best Sellers, your store's Choice Books,
whatever you want!
Flexible Catalog Categories: Publisher can assign titles to multiple subjects to maximize retrieval by
your customers. MIDAS retailer has option to override such assignments.
Complete Metadata Display: Support for display of complete metadata available from Content Reserve.
Flexible Pricing: Set sales prices and discounts. Display both SRP and discounted prices for each title. Ability to set pricing and discount per title. Support of pricing rules based on margins given by publishers. Allows retailer to maintain same profit margin regardless of publisher discount.
Campaign tracking: Capture referral URLs for sales and marketing tracking.
Administration and Reporting
- Real-time customizable reports: Track downloads and sales by day, week, monthly, year, format, and/or title. Export
data to Excel and Text files.
- Inventory Management: Add or delete inventory.
- Merchandising Management: Update website, set best sellers list, etc.
- Extensive "customer usage" reports: Track average session length and average number of pages visited per session.
- Generate customer session and search reports including customer searches and search types.
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