This Book Genome Project breaks a book down into 32,160 data points and quantifies everything from density and pacing.
Why Metadata is the Key to Your Digital Future
Metadata is the primary means by which users will be able to find your digital book content. It is the one way you can future proof your content now.
Reserve Your Space for Frankfurt’s Metadata Perspectives Conference Today
How can metadata help to market, license or develop book products? Find out at the Metadata Perspectives conference in Frankfurt.
Connecting Creators With Consumers: How IFRRO Regulates the Global Secondary Rights Market
IFRRO aims to help publishers and authors recoup some €300 million annually from lost revenue due to unlicensed content reproduction.
#BEA11: The Secrets to Better Book Discovery
By Chad W. Post One of the key buzzwords of this BEA is “discovery.” In an age of abundance (as reported last week, more than 3.2 million books were published last year), getting your book to cut through the noise is a very complicated, yet essential, matter. This is especially difficult in the digital marketplace, where there are no bookstore …
Book Industry Study Group: The Rosetta Stone of the Publishing Industry
BISG is focused on producing actionable data that will make a difference to people’s day-to-day business. Their next conference, this Thursday, focuses on innovation. By Edward Nawotka “BISG’s job is, to borrow an analogy from music, to increase the ratio of signal to noise in the publishing industry,” says Scott Lubeck, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group. “Or, …
Are You Using Enhanced Metadata?
By Hannah Johnson So we’ve got metadata to tell everyone what our books are called and who wrote them, but now there it’s possible to include enhanced metadata, like media reviews, author bios and jacket copy in your metadata entries. Our feature story today looks at what enhanced metadata is and what it can do for your book sales. As …
How to Sell More Books with Metadata
By Hannah Johnson What if you could tag your books with regional codes so that booksellers know when a local author’s book is coming out? What if online book retailers could display media mentions, excerpts, and external links for the books they sell? What if a simple search on Facebook for an author could return the dates of the author’s …
The Future of Rights: Standards and Shared Metadata
By Emily Williams The paper book is an object of beauty and simplicity. This neat package has allowed books to conceal for many years the increasingly complex tangle of copyrights they each comprise: rights to text and images, limitations by territory and term of contract, restrictions on the reader. Then came the digital transition, books stripped off their paper packages, …
Why Publishers Need Agile Content: XML, Semantics and RDF
By Ingrid S. Goldstein We live in a networked society. The Internet, digitization, and globalization have turned our world into a complex system, a tangled web of relationships. Web 2.0 is already being replaced by Web 3.0, the Social Semantic Web. The Web of documents is turning into the Web of data. We live drowning in information, and need the …