Commonly Used Acronyms and Terms of the Book Industry
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Commonly used acronyms and terms of the book industry Acknowledgement/sources: Publish It! (Thorpe-Bowker), Style Manual (Wiley), Australian Booksellers Association, Australian Publishers Association, Australian Copyright Council, American Publishers Association, student research/contribution. Additional contributions are welcomed. Not to be reproduced without written permission. AB&P APRA/ AMCOS Australian Bookseller & Publisher. Quarterly APRA: Australian Performing Rights book industry journal (1921-) published by Association. AMCOS: Australasian Mechanical Thorpe-Bowker. Title changed to Copyright Owners Society. APRA AMCOS is a Books+Publishing (B+P) in 2013.. collecting society that licenses organisations to play, perform, copy, record or make available its ABA members’ music, and distributes the royalties Australian Booksellers Association. The not-for- received to them. Members include songwriters, profit peak organisation for all (new and second composers and music publishers. Originally, hand) Australian booksellers (also ABA APRA AMCOS was two separate organisations. American Booksellers Association). In 1997 they formed an alliance to provide a one-stop service to music creators and music ACBA customers. Australian Campus Booksellers Association. Peak organisation for campus bookshops Archival paper throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Papers specifically made for an extended South Pacific. lifespan which do not discolour or otherwise deteriorate; used in academic texts and other Advance works of permanent value. A payment - often but not always non- refundable - to an author (copyight owner) by a ARP publisher against which future royalty earnings Australian Recommended Price (also see are offset (see Royalty). RRP). The suggested retail price for a book, set by publishers. Includes 10% GST component. Agent Retailers generally purchase books from Person/organisation commissioned by a publishers at RRP less a discount (see publisher or distributor to sell books to retail Discount) outlets, or person/ organisation who represents the 'interests of an author’ to a publisher (see Artwork Literary/Business Agent). Graphic or text material prepared for reproduction. Agency Model Where the publisher set the selling price of its ASA eBook to the eRetailer and the eRetailer agrees Australian Society of Authors. Principal not to discount the book. Used by Apple and advocate for Australian authors. Deals with contested in (see Wholesale Model). basic rights to freedom of expression; working to improve income and conditions; promoting ALIA Australian writing and literary culture,etc. Australian Library and Information Association. National professional organisation for the Assignment (of copyright) Australian library and information services The transfer or sale of the ownership of sector. copyright in a work from the creator to another party. Can occur before or after the work is AMCOS created (see Licensing). See APRA/AMCOS Auction APA A process whereby a title is submitted, Australian Publishers Association (formerly the particularly by a literary or business agent, to a ABPA, Australian Book Publishers Association). number of selected publishers in order to The industry association for Australian book, secure the best offer or highest price. journal and electronic publishers. Also see SPN. 1 AUSBIP BIC/BASIC Australian Books in Print. Directory of all Set of basic Book Industry Classifications and Australian books in print, together with local standards for bibliographic data provision agents of overseas publishers and listing of developed by the UK’s book industry and Australian publishers with contact details. No subsequently modified for application in longer published as a separate volume but still Australia. Foms an integral part of Australia’s available in libraries etc and on line through online information system (see ONIX). Informit. Binding Australian title The type of cover of a book - generally A book that is listed or in future will be listed in expressed as either hardback or paperback, but the Australian National Bibliography and which sometimes as cased (hardback) or has an ISBN. May be by an Australian author or Iimp/softback (paperback). be an overseas book ‘published’ in Australia, eg a local printing of a major title, a local Bleed adaptation of an overseas title etc. Term used for an illustration or image which extends beyond the trimmed page. B+P Books + Publishing. Quarterly book industry Blue Newsletter/ Blue News magazine published by Thorpe-Bowker (see See WBN AB&P) Blurb Backlist Publisher’s description of a book, usually printed Refers to titles that have been on the market for on the cover or jacket of a book and in a period of time. Generally accepted as being associated publicity material. titles that have been available for more than 12 months, although this may vary publisher by Book clubs publisher (see Frontlist and Midlist). Mail order operations through which selected books are sold direct to the public at a price Barcode significantly below the recommended retail price A code printed on a product which can be read in return for a commitment to buy a particular by an electronic scanner. Used by the book number of books over a period. Examples in trade to Identify, order, sell and manage books Australia are Doubleday Book Club and, in using computerised inventory systems. Includes schools, Scholastic Book Club. a graphic representation of the ISBN (also see EAN). Book Council of Australia Announced by the Prime Minister in Dec 2014 Barcode Solutions ‘to promote Australian writing nationally and Supplier of bookshop stock and sales internationally and encourage and promote management software in Australia and New reading’. Never got off the ground! Zealand. BookData Berne Convention Properly Nielsen BookData Online. Supplier of The international treaty that standardises basic global bibliographic information to the Australian copyright protection among all of its signatory book trade, especially Nielsen BookScan. countries. Signatory countries agree to afford Competitor to Bowker’sglobal Books in Print. the same treatment to an author from another Entries in both databases are free of charge signatory country as it does to authors in its own and are essential bibliographic tools for country. In addition, each member country is booksellers and libraries. obligated to protect an author's moral rights. Book fairs Bestseller Exhibitions and conventions used by publishers Properly any book whose sales exceed the as locations for meetings and business publisher’s expectations. So a book whose dealings. The most important international book sales expectations are 2000 and which sells fairs are Frankfurt and London, Bologna 3000 is properly a bestseller, albeit that actual children’s book fair and the American sales may be low. Also refers to highest selling Booksellers Association (ABA). title/s in particular categories. Generally used to identify popular titles that appear on bestseller Books in Print lists. Properly Bowker’s Books in Print, the global database of over 20 million titles, including all Australian and New Zealand (in print, out of 2 print, forthcoming, etc), including books, Independents and DDS (Department and ebooks, audio books, and multimedia. Discount Stores). In Australia generally describes a common branding of four or more BookNet company owned or franchised bookstores See UniLink Data Systems operating across more than one state. Chains include Dymocks, QBD, ABC etc, as well as Bookseller, The online stores such as Booktopia (see The Bookseller is the weekly business independents and DDS). magazine of the UK and international book industries. Published in London since 1858 it is CiP now complemented by the online Cataloguing in Publication. The preliminary bookseller.com. cataloguing record produced by the National Library of Australia to capture bibliographical BookScan data on titles not yet published. Properly Nielsen BookScan. Previously BookTrack. The book sales monitoring and Citation measurement system used as the basis of most Acknowledgement or reference to ideas, facts bestseller lists in Australia, as well as industry or opinions from another publication analysis. Consignment Book tokens Books sold on consignment are not invoiced to Gift vouchers with monetary values redeemable the customer but paid for as they are resold. at bookshops. Many booksellers have their own, Books consigned in this way are sometimes redemnable only through their own stores. The described as having been supplied ‘sale or Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has return’ or as having been merchandised Australian Book Vouchers available from most booksellers, valid for two years and redemnable Commissioning editor at any participating bookstore in the country. A person employed in a publishing house to BookTrack seek out authors to write particular books for See BookScan publication; sometimes referred to as an acquiring or acquisitions editor. CAL Copyright Agency Limited. Properly The Copyediting Copyright Agency, Appointed by the Checking a manuscript for basic grammar, government, Copyright Agency collects fees spelling and typographical errors, and and distributes royalties to creator members for inconsistencies in style. the reuse of text and images. It manages the educational copying schemes, the Counterpack commonwealth, state and territory government Presentation pack, comprising a small number copying schemes, commercial copying licences, of copies of a book,