• You operate your own AODP server as a digital warehouse.
• You have full control over your master files and their quality and timeliness.
• You are completely independent in your business and decide on prices and marketing.
• You determine which trading partners have access to your server.
• All articles can be provided with suitable individual characteristics with each sales transaction.
• The duplication takes place on your server.
• You can add digital items to your range of physical items. Digital is then not just a "copy" of the physical, but you can use and supplement the media where it makes sense to do so. Cannibalisation is avoided and a joint development that brings growth becomes possible.
• You have a direct and complete overview of all sales and settle them yourself.
• Cooperation with many dealers of all sizes is possible. The retailers only need the descriptive metadata f your digital items to be able to sell it
• Working with traders is similar to physical business that means you sell individual digital editions instead of having to license the master data to platforms.

• As a retailer you are independent and can operate your digital offer yourself. This gives you business independence (!) from portals and the business processes of third parties.
• With the sale via AODP, you customer is and stays "Your customer" as all customer data stay in your hands. Taking data protection into account, it is possible to maintain your individual customer marketing.
• You can expand your range and easily offer physical and digital items together.
• AODP Enables collaboration with vendors without licensing and complicated rights management for the digital articles. The business with digital articles is similar to that with physical articles.
• With AODP, it will be much easier for retailers to offer and sell digital products. You can enter the digital goods business without having to license, store and technically organize them.
• Through the AODP network, you can work together with many providers in a standardized way and use their digital warehoueses.
• You can also compile an assortment of selected digital articles which are exactly suitable for your customers.
• You can offer digital articles via your webshop, "from the shop counter" or via new channels. For your customers, visiting your business online or on site is attractive, because you have a competent and comprehensive offer.
• You only need a relatively small amount of memory capacity for your online sales opportunity since only descriptive metadata of the digital is needed. Storage and the associated organizational processes take place at the source at the suppliers. Thanks to this cooperation, your offer will always be up-to-date and of high quality.
• Your offer and appearance can bear your individual signature. You can bring your personal competence to the sale of the articlesn and Thus, stand out from the rest.

In the sheet music sector, AODP is already in use.
You are a music publishing house or a retailer and want to sell digital sheet music? Then you will find more information on how you can also participate under www.idnv.net/de/aodp.html.

The sheet music sector's Registry Authority for AODP participant IDs is the IDNV (International Database for Sheet Music and Musical Products). There you can also get your AODP certificate.

Your direct contact to the AODP Registry Authority in the IDNV:
Phone: +49 2233 80 41 00
Email: info@idnv.net
Contact form: www.idnv.net/de/support.html