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, used for point of sale the Resale Royalty scheme for artists, and the merchandising and intended placed on a special provisions for institutions assisting bookshop counter to encourage impulse people with print. Distributes over $100 million a purchase. year to copyright owners. Members include authors, poets and playwrights, journalists, CRA publishers, visual artists, photographers, Camera Ready Artwork. Final film or bromide cartoonists and illustrators and surveyors. Also version of a manuscript, ready for printing, as administers Viscopy, the separate collecting opposed to providing the version on a disk. society for visual artists. Creative Commons (CC) Camera-ready copy An international non-profit organisation that The text of a title supplied to a printer ready for provides free licences and tools that copyright reproduction and printing. owners can use to allow others to share, reuse and remix their material, legally. Releasing Capital expenditure material under a CC licence makes it clear to Outlays on capital equipment included all costs users what they can or cannot do with the capitalised in the account books of a business, material. The six standardised CC licences eg legal fees, real estate and assets acquired each allow material to be used in a different under finance leases. way.
Chains CrossRef One of the three general market retail channels CrossRef is an independent membership in the Australian book trade. Other are association, founded and directed by publishers
3 whose mandate is to connect users to primary access to copyrighted material. Developed to research content, by enabling publishers to prevent a user copying and passing on (piracy), work collectively. CrossRef is also the official now controls viewing, copying and printing of Digital Object Identifer (DOI) link registration material. agency for scholarly and professional publications which allows a researcher to click Dumpbin on a reference citation on one publisher’s A presentation stand, usually containing 20-40 platform and link directly to the cited content on copies of a book, used for point of sale (ie close another publisher’s platform (see DOI). to checkout) merchandising in bookshops.
DataPage EAN/UPC Extension of the APA’s TitlePage service which European Article Number/Universal Product allows booksellers to download title information Code. The international 13 digit barcode used for all the publishers that belong to TitlePage, for marking retail goods. Is compatible and can and to be able to do this from a single site. be created by converting 13 digit ISBNs. Now better described as GS1 system (also see DDS ISBN). Department and Discount Stores. One of the three general market retail channels in the eBook Australian book trade. Other are Independents A book-length publication in digital form, and Chains. In Australia DDS includes Kmart, consisting of text, images, or both, and Target, BigW, Myer, David Jones etc. Often produced on, published through, and readable characterised by limited stock range and deep on computers or other electronic devices. As discounting of new, high volume titles. distinct from printed books (pBooks or analogue books). Discount A percentage of the recommended retail price EDI of a book subtracted by the publisher when Electronic Data Interchange. The exchange of supplying the book to a retailer. information and other data between computer systems; also known as Electronic Commerce. Distributor Standards for book trade EDI messages have Organisation which supplies other publishers' been accepted by both the ABA and APA. books to retailers, either nationally or at state level. Electronic Ink (also called e-paper/ iINK) A liquid substance consisting of millions of tiny Distribution Centre capsules filled with dark dyes and negatively Location where orders from booksellers are charged white chips that responds to electrical received and processed and where books from impulses. Enable changeable text and image different publishers are stored and dispatched, displays on a flexible (‘electronic paper’) Since the days when every publisher had its surface. Used for applications such as e-books. own warehouse, the trend has been towards When subjected to electrical impulses the white large distribution centres servicing the chips display as light or dark-colored ‘text’. requirements of many different publishers and imprints, eg … ELR Educational Lending Right. The right of creators DOI and publishers to receive from the public purse Digital Object Identifer. Numbering system for a payment for the loan of their works held in identifying and exchanging content or objects school libraries. Payments are at the discretion of any kind, not necessarily digital ones (ie, it’s a of the Minister and, if made, are made annual digital identifer of objects). Often described as by the Commonwealth’s Public Lending Right the ISBN for digital content. Provides open, authority (see PLR) freely available information about how to access the content it identifes. Can be persistent. ie if EPOS the content moves on the web it can be traced Electronic Point of Sale. Electronic systems for through the DOI, provided the DOI agency has monitoring sales. Usually include a barcode been advised. Example: 101.1071/MU9902 reader. - Composed of a Publisher identifer (101.1071) - Publisher assigned identifer (MU9902) ePUB - Publisher identifer provided by Registration. Although one of a number of formats/standards, ePub is increasingly being accepted as the DRM industry standard for eBook production. An Digital Right Management. Technologies that extension of XML, it allows publishers to prohibit sharing by restricting or controlling
4 produce a single and interoperable digital file for (red) yellow and black (CMYB) to make any use by different eBook devices. colour needed. eReaders Global Books in Print Any device on which eBooks can be read, See Books in Print. including dedicated readers (Kobo, Kindle etc), tablets (iPad), smartphones, notebooks, Google settlement laptops. In Australia the market is dominated by Google, without the permission of copyright the Kindle followed by the Kobo. owners, was scanning in-copyright books and other material held in the USA (including books eRetailers published elsewhere but sold legally in the USA) Refers to local and overseas resellers who sell and was displaying exerpts without permission. eBooks online. Includes many brick-and-mortar Authors and publishers filed a class suit in the local booksellers, international companies with USA to stop the practice. The ‘Google Australian offices (eg Kobo, Google), global settlement’ allows Google to continue the companies (Amazon, Apple). Distinct from practice with works published before 5 January online booksellers who sell pBooks online, 2009 but allows copyright owners to ‘opt out’. In some without a brick-and-mortar presence (eg return Google maintains a Books Register and Booktopia). pays rightsholders a percentage of revenue from Google’s sales of the scanned works. For Firm sale more details on the settlement, see Books supplied by publisher that may not be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Book_Sear returned unsold by booksellers. Most backlist ch_Settlement_Agreement titles are sold to booksellers on a firm sale basis. Hard copy A printed version of a manuscript or other text, FOB as opposed to an electronic version. Freight on Board. Used with overseas sales when the seller (the Australian publisher) pays HTML the freight for the books to go to the overseas Hyper Text Markup Language. The predominant publisher's/bookseller's shippers in Australia, markup language for the creation of web pages. then the buyer (the overseas publisher or It tell the web browser how to display pages. bookseller) pays the rest of the cost (freight, HTML provides a means to describe the insurances etc) to get the books to their structure of text-based information in a door. Also referred to as Free on Board. document by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on It also supplements Folio text with interactive forms, embedded images, Page number. and other objects etc.
Formats HTTP Book sizes. Usually expressed in depth then Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The method used width. Commonly used ones include: to transfer or convey information on the World - A:format of mass market paperbacks, most Wide Web. It is different from HTML which once commonly with a trimmed page size of 181 transferred shows the browser how to display x 111 mm; the information. - B: a format for paperbacks particularly favoured for non-fiction and literary fiction, Imprint normally of a trimmed size 198 x 128 mm; The name of the publisher under which a title is B+ with a trimmed size of 208 x 135mm issued, or the term which represents a and C: most often used to describe a large publishing brand rather than a publishing format paperback edition published company in its own right. Also used to refer to simultaneously with, and in the same format the printer’s name and address which by law as, the hardback original, normally with a must appear in all printed books. trimmed size of 234x153mm. Imprint page Frontlist Usually the reverse page of a book’s title page. New books, or books that are less than 12 Carries information such as CIP data, including months old (see Backlist and Midlist). the book’s ISBN, copyright notice, publication date, as well as information about the publisher Full-colour and printer. Printing using the four-colour process, which uses the 'process colours' cyan (blue), magenta
5 INCOTERMS 2000 National Library of Australia is the ISSN Agency The international rules for the interpretation of for Australia. the most commonly used terms in foreign trade. States the points at which risk and responsibility Inventory change between parties. Includes such The total stock in trade of a bookseller or acronyms as publisher. - EXW (ex Works), - FOB (Free on Board/Freight on Board), Large print - CFR (Cost and Freight), Editions of existing titles redesigned for reading - CIF (Cost, Insurance and Freight), by those with impaired vision. Significant - DDU (Delivered, Duty Unpaid), publishers and distributors of large print books - DDP or FIS (Delivered Duty Paid / Free in Australia include Bolinda Publishing. in Store), - FCL (Full Container Load), Leading Edge - LCL (Less than full Container Load), Properly Leading Edge Books. Australia's - Consolidation (several LCLs by freight largest buying and marketing group of forwarder – more than one exporter to independent booksellers. Works closely with the one of more importers) ABA.
INDECS Legacy publishers Interoperability of Data for Electronic Commerce A term used to describe traditional publishers, Systems. A standards infrastructure for e- usually within the eBook debate. Sometimes commerce. Came from need to have electronic used pejoratively, but more properly used to rights systems in the book industry. Steering describe publishers who produce and cost committee consists of publishers, authors, pBooks using traditional methods. libraries, users, compilers. Legal Deposit Indent Statutory provision to ensure that a copy of all To import for sale a legal edition of a book from publications in Australia is lodged with the a source other than the Australian copyright National Library of Australia and other statutory holder (see 30/90 day rule). deposit libraries (most often state libraries).
Indies (Independents) Licence (exclusive/non-exclusive licence) Usually applied to privately owned bookshops The right to use a creator’s work in specific and with fewer than five stores operating in fewer defined ways, on an exclusive or non-exclusive than three states/territories eg Readings, Mary basis, for a period of time, usually the life of Ryan. Indies are one of the three general retail copyright. Unlike assignment, ownership of the sales channels (see DDS and Chains). Not to work does not pass. Licences can be limited by be confused with privately owned, franchise time, geography, target market, use etc. When chain booksellers. thinking licence, think ‘renting your house’, as distinct from assignment (‘selling your house’). ISBN International Standard Book Number. A unique Literary/Business agent 13 digit machine-readable identification number A person or company looking after the interests which marks any book unmistakably. While of author clients and managing the exploitation every book needs an ISBN, not everything with of rights in an author’s work. This includes an ISBN is a book because publishers often use submission of a book to publishers (perhaps in ISBNs as general product identifiers for non- the form of an auction), negotiating a contract, book product (eg calendars, dump bins etc). collecting money due, and dealing with other Australian agency is Thorpe-Bowker. Changed rights not held by the publisher, such as (in from 10 digits to 13 digits in January 2007. many cases) broadcasting and film rights.
ISSN Manuscript/MS International Standard Serial Number. The handwritten/typed/word processed copy of Standarised 8 digit international code which a book. allows the identification of any serial publication independent of its country of publication, its Market language, alphabet or format (other than The potential readership for a title and/or the electronic which now requires a new ISSN to territories of the world in which a title may be distinguish it from paper formats). Takes the contractually sold. form of acronym (ISSN) plus two groups of four digits separated by a hyphen. 8th character is the control/check digit, eg ISSN 0317-8471.
6 Mass market/mass market paperbacks national book industry groups, including Sales channels that extend beyond traditional description, table of content, jacket graphics, trade outlets to include newsstands, discount marketing information to be transmitted stores and supermarkets. Mass market electronically in addition to traditional paperbacks are usually printed on less bibliographic information. ONIX underpins the expensive paper than trade paperbacks, and APA’s Title Page service. their covers are more likely to attract a mass audience. Open Access Resources that are openly available to users Metadata with no requirements for authentication or The electronic bibliographic information about payment. For publishers it means the costs of content, such as author, title, ISBN, publisher, publication have to be funded from sources publication date, description. Used to display other than subscriptions/ sales – either by content on search engines and other digital payments on behalf of authors (eg from media. research or institutional funds) or from third- party sources such as grants. Midlist Titles that are financially viable but are unlikely Operating profit before tax to sell in very large quantities. Most books Total income plus closing stock, minus total published in Australia are midlist (see Backlist costs and opening stocks. and Frontlist). Packager Moral Rights Third party company which creates and A creator’s right to have their work attributed to originates, sometimes manufactures, books for them, and the right to protect the work from publishers. alteration. The rights remain with the creator, irrespective of the ownership of copyright and Pacstream remain in force for the duration of the copyright Software that allows retailers to send orders protection of the work, ie they cannot be electronically to their suppliers and receive back contracted away. The rights are the right of acknowledgements and invoices. attribution, the right to not have authorship falsely attributed and the right of integrity. Page proof Proof of the made-up pages in a book, often New edition used not only to check accuracy of typesetting A reprint of an existing title incorporating but also as an advance promotional tool. substantial textual or artwork alterations, or republication of a title which has been out of pBooks print for a substantial period. Always carries a Printed books, as distinct from electronic books new/different ISBN. From the original version of (see eBooks) the work. PDF Newslink Portable Document Format. A ‘universal’ file Major bookselling newsagent chain (owned by format that preserves fonts and formatting and Hachette). Especially strong in airports. does not allow content to be altered by the Represents roughly 5%-8% of sales of general recipient. books. Peer Review NLA Assessment of material submitted for National Library of Australia. publication (usually in a journal) by an editor and one or more experts who are professional peers NZBIP of the author. New Zealand Books in Print. Separate publication of all NZ books with full details and Plagiarism availability details. No longer available as a Copying other peoples' ideas and work without separate publication but now incorporated in acknowledgement. Can include word for word Bowker’s Book in Print database. copying, close paraphrasing without acknowledgement and/or submitting someone else's work as your own. ONIX Online Information Exchange. The international PLR standard for representing and communicating Public Lending Right. The right of an author to book industry product information in electronic receive from the public purse a payment for the form. Incorporates the core content decided by loan of works from public libraries. Specifc
7 conditions apply. The PLR authority is the first change of hands after 9 June 2010. No administered by the Department of royalties are payable on resales for under Communications and the Arts. The ‘right’ to $1,000. payment is discretionary and may be changed Returns by the Minister (see ELR) Unsold books returned to the publisher or distributor. POD Print on Demand. A digital technology used as a Re-exports way of printing items for a fixed cost per copy, Exports from Australia of books originally regardless of the size of the order. While the imported into Australia by an Australian unit price of each physical copy printed is publisher. usually higher than with web or offset printing, the average cost is lower for very small print Rights runs, because setup costs are much higher for The permission to use an author’s work in offset printing. See SRDP. different ways, such as the right to sell it in foreign countries, to publish all/part in Publishing Perspectives magazines, to broadcast etc. A free, emailed newsletter with news and commentary on all aspects of the book industry Royalty throughout the world. Published daily from New Payment due to a copyright owner for the York. exploitation of a copyright work. In publishing it usually takes the form of a periodic payment Publishers Weekly based on sales of the work (% of recommended Commonly known as PW, Publishers Weekly is retail price or % of revenue received by the a weekly news magazine focused on the US publisher), but may also be a lump sum or other and international book publishing business. agreed ‘valuable consideration’ (see advances). Published in New York and available in print or digitally. RRP Recommended Retail Price. Sometimes ARP Profit margin (Australian Retail Price). The price at which the Operating profit before tax as a percentage of publisher recommends that retail outlets sell the total turnover. book. Booksellers generally purchase titles from publishers at RRP less booksellers discount. Recto A right hand page of an open book, or the front SAN of a loose document (see Verso) Standard Address Number. The unique seven- digit identifier used to signify a specific address Referencing of an organisation in (or served by) the The practice of acknowledging sources of publishing industry. Six digits, plus a modulus- information and ideas used in a publication (see eleven check digit. Always preceded with ‘SAN’ Plagiarism) . to avoid confusion, ie SAN XXXX-XXX.
Reprint Self Publishing/vanity publishing A second or subsequent printing of a title with Refers to those paying to have their no/minimal alteration to the text and or artwork. manauscript converted to a book. In the past Carries the same ISBN as the original print. was not a respected part of the industry but now Also see New Edition. service providers such as Lightning Source will both produce, distribute and pay royalties on Resale Royalty sales of self funded projects. The scheme, also called a droit de suite, which entitles the artist to a royalty payment when a SOR work of art he or she has created is resold. In Sale or Return. The arrangement whereby Australia the artists' resale royalty scheme books supplied by publishers to booksellers started in June 2010 and is managed by the may be returned for credit if subsequently Copyright Agency. Under the scheme unsold. commercial resales of artworks for $1,000 or more must be reported; and a 5% royalty is SPUNC payable on some resales. The scheme applies Small Press Underground Networking to resales of existing as well as new works; it Community. See SPN applies to a range of original artworks, included limited edition prints authorised by the artist; it SPN does not apply to a private sale from one Small Press Network (formerly Small Press individual to another, nor is a royalty payable on Underground Networking Community,SPUNC).
8 Membership organisation dedicated to has not advise that the book will be advancing the interests of new and small available within 90 days. publishers in Australia (see APA). Thorpe-Bowker I Identifer Services SRDP Publisher and provider of key data and Short Run Digital Printing. Like POD allows for information for the book industry, including short print runs of books at increasingly being the Australian ISBN Agency, publishing economical prices. trade journals/newsletters etc. Part of the US ProQuest Group of companies. STM Scientific, Technical and Medical . Specific Title Page publishing sector. Also the name of an The Australian Publishers Association’s on line international organisation based in the stock confirmation and ordering system. Netherlands which represents the interests of Available only to APA members, including its STM publishers. associate (non voting) members.
Stocks – opening/closing Total operating costs Stocks of material and of finished goods and Sum of all costs items, ie wages and salaries work-in-progress at the beginning and end of a paid to own employees, royalties and fees paid, period covered. costs of printing, landed costs of books imported, advertising and promotional costs, Subscription distribution and other marketing costs and The process whereby a title is sold to ‘other’ costs. booksellers in advance of publication and orders taken which are held as dues until shortly Total turnover before the publication date. Also pre-purchase Sum of all turnover items, ie sales of books, of a number of issues of a journal or magazine. sales of other products, receipts from royalties, sale of rights, government grants, PLR, CAL Sunset clauses income etc. Clauses in publishing contracts that can be revisited as mutually agreed times. Applies in Typeface particular but not exclusively to electronic The design of the individual characters making (eBook) rights. up the text of a book. Many hundreds of typefaces exist and are continually being Supplier designed, of which only about twenty are used Somebody who supplies books to retail outlets. with any regularity for books. May be a publisher or distributor. UniLink Terms of trade UniLink Data Systems is a systems developer The terms, including discount and returns that provides the BookNet bookshop inventory policy, under which a publisher or distributor management systems used by campus and supplies books to retail outlets. independent booksellers.
30/90 day rule Verso The Copyright Act’s parallel importation A left-hand page of an open book, or the back provisions that mean any book first published of a loose document (see Recto) overseas after 23 December 1991 must be published in Australia within 30 days of its Viscopy overseas publication date or the copyright The not-for-profit artwork rights management owner 'forfeits the right to control importation organisation representing Australian and NZ permanently'. In other words, the market is artists and, through reciprocal agreements, ‘open’ but becomes ‘closed’ if stock is released 1000s of overseas visual artists. Has a within 30 days of first legal publication. In administrative partnership with the Copyright addition, a bookseller may import for sale Agency. (indent) a legal edition of a book from a source other than the Australian copyright holder so Woodfree long as Paper made from chemically treated woodpulp - the bookseller has ordered in writing and used for good quality book production from the Australian copyright holder one because of its colour fastness and durability. or more copies of the version and it has not been filled in 90 days, or Versioning - (b) in 7 days following placement of the Multiple versions of content created for different order the Australian copyright owner purposes. In publishing it may involve publishing
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WBN Weekly Book Newsletter. Properly Books+Publishing’s Weekly Book Newsletter. News sheet published weekly (with daily updates) by Thorpe-Bowker. Also known as the ‘blue news’ because original paper edition was printed on blue stock.
Wholesale Model Where publishers set the recommended retail price of their books (e or pBooks), the retailer is given a discount off the recommended selling price and the retailer can choose the price they charge customers.
XML Extensible Markup Language. A general- purpose markup language whose primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different information systems, particularly via the Internet.
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