Current market overview of industry software, software and solutions for publishers and the publishing industry. Publishing software usually includes address management, a title database or issue archive, or a digital library, and is equipped with merchandise management with billing, shipping, ordering, and author management, etc. Software for the publishing industry often also includes modules for ad management, interfaces to financial accounting and to delivery service providers such as DHL, UPS, DPD, etc.. In most cases, solutions for cross-media publishing are also integrated.