Use Cases
How the people who make books use Quoinlock
Catalog-Wide Metadata Health
You send metadata to the ISBN agency, your distributor and a handful of retailers, and every one of them shows it a little differently. Quoinlock puts the official record, the retail listings and the library record for your whole list in one place, and tells you when they drift apart.
Key Benefits
- Import your whole list by publisher name in a few clicks
- Find official-record, retail and LoC disagreements before your readers do
- Price and availability alerts across up to 44 sources
- ONIX 3.0 and 3.1 records for distributors and partners
- Group titles by imprint, or into your own collections
From Launch Day to the Library Shelf
You've published your book. Now you want to know it's live everywhere, that it looks right, and that libraries can find it. Quoinlock watches the launch for you and gives you the library-grade metadata that used to need a professional cataloger.
Key Benefits
- Know the day your book goes live at each retailer
- An alert when the Library of Congress assigns your LCCN
- A PCIP block for your copyright page
- A warning if your ISBN lists KDP or another free-ISBN provider as publisher
- Check whether you have an ISNI or LC Name Authority record
Cataloging Without the Busywork
Metadata work means jumping between the ISBN agency, the LC catalog, OCLC, authority files and ONIX tools. Quoinlock brings them into one workspace built around the ISBN, so you can check a record, classify it and produce the output in minutes.
Key Benefits
- LoC MARC records with decoded agency codes and MARCXML download
- How roughly 50 major libraries have catalogued a title
- LC call number estimates with shelflist-fitted Cutters
- ISNI, LC NAF and ORCID lookup with confidence levels
- PCIP and ONIX generation from the same source data
See the full list on the Features page, or compare plans.