DistributionGuide·BookBeat

Getting your catalogue onto BookBeat

BookBeat is part of Bonnier Books and serves subscribers across Sweden, Finland, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the UK, and several other European markets. It is the primary streaming platform for publishers targeting the Nordic region. Getting listed requires valid ONIX 3.0 metadata submitted through their publisher portal — alongside the audio files.

What BookBeat checks

Every submission is validated before ingestion. These are the fields BookBeat requires to be present and correctly structured:

  • Product form code for digital audio (DA) and audio format detail
  • Duration in minutes
  • Author and narrator as separate contributor roles
  • Language of text and language of audio (when they differ)
  • Territory and sales rights — per market
  • Pricing in the correct currency for each active market
  • Cover image via permanent URL
  • ISBN-13
  • Publication date
  • Description
  • Genre / subject codes

Where submissions typically fail

Wrong or missing product form codes

BookBeat's ingestion expects specific ONIX codes for digital audio. Sending the wrong ProductForm or leaving ProductFormDetail blank is the most common reason a submission fails without a clear error message.

Incomplete territory rights

BookBeat operates across Sweden, Finland, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the UK, and more. If your Sales Rights composite doesn't cover the territories you're licensing, titles won't appear in those markets.

Multi-currency pricing

Each market requires its own price composite. A single-currency entry will pass schema validation but won't activate the title in markets that use a different currency.

How Onix Creator helps

Correct audio codes, built in

Product form and format detail codes for digital audio are selectable from the right ONIX code lists. No need to look up values manually.

Multi-territory pricing

Set sales rights and prices per territory. The tool generates the correct ONIX composites for each market — Sweden, Germany, Norway, and the rest.

Validates before export

Required fields are checked against the ONIX spec before you can download the file. What you send is what gets ingested.

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