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Is your publishing workflow ready to meet ebook accessibility requirements? Many publishers understand the mandate to meet EAA and ADA regulations but don’t know where to start.

The good news: You’re not alone, and we’re here to help. In this practical sessio…[Read more]

I wanted to touch base and see if presses are still utilizing chapter abstracts and keywords. If so:

• What library aggregators take them?
• How do you store and feed them?
• Do you have a streamlined workflow? Or, is it a different workflow for each aggregator?
• Do you use them internally or for other purposes?
• Have any presses…

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I've had this issue with books not showing up at just Ingram. All the metadata was correct everywhere else. I brought it up to our distributor who said she would have to send the metadata again to remedy the issue. Honestly, if your distributor is the one to upload the metadata, they'll have to be the one to fix it. They won't catch it…[Read more]

We've found that a small handful of deep backlist books in print format are not showing up on Barnes & Noble's website. Further, one of our authors has an event coming up at her local B&N and she has been told that her book "isn't in B&N's system," and they've said that they can't host the event unless the Press "changes it" so that B&N…[Read more]

We are working to align the publication dates of our print edition and e-editions more closely. At present, our physical books still arrive about a month before the electronic editions are available.

Quite a few of our processes are being adjusted to make things work, and my piece of the puzzle is how to create metadata that…[Read more]

Hi all, I’m in Ops/Production/metadata at Princeton and am on a working group looking at keywords. I would be very interested in hearing how other UPs create keywords and whether your approach varies b…[Read more]

We are sending out ORCiDs in feeds that can take them. At the moment, that's mostly only to vendors that take ONIX 3. (I don't think anyone still doing Excel spreadsheets is…[Read more]

Are there any best practices or pitfalls to be aware of when updating ONIX, BISACs, distributor feeds, etc.?…[Read more]

Thank you!

Keara Mickelson

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Given everything you all have mentioned, and given that none of our transmission partners have complained…[Read more]

Record Reference is very important, and different channels/partners will use them differently. It's vital to keep them consistent and unique.

The ONIX best practice suggests "using the ISBN as a <RecordReference>: at minimum, add something like a reversed domain name to ensure uniqueness of the Record reference (other organizations may…[Read more]

In many of our older print titles, we have Record References, normally ISBN-13s, that are instead four digits, a colon, and then the same four digits, e.g. 4613:4613. A few questions for the group here:

• How important is the Record Reference? Our distributor says that they don't use it in their system at all, and searches of ONIX code…

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We send BB/B315 Trade binding for our hardcovers, whether they are jacketed or not. We have some titles that are printed without jackets (and not case cover), and that can lead to confusion--especially if the paperback marketing image is used.

Do any of you use distinct Product Form Details to mark these out? I'm considering B306 Library…[Read more]

Hi!
I'm looking for advice from other Mailchimp users on tagging and segmentation. Ours could be way better! How are other presses segmenting their audiences to target the subscribers who will be most interested in the content of an email? Or are y'all sending most emails to your whole…[Read more]

https://www.booknetcanada.ca/onix-standards

https://www.booknetcanada.ca/s/BISG_Best_Practices_for_Product_Metadata_6115.pdf

We stopped Twitter/X as of December and are also focussing on Bluesky, Facebook, and Instagram.

Things are off to a good start on Bluesky and the starter packs really help.

Cathie

PS

Jeremy Grainger of Rutgers University Press gave some great info on AAUP-M on November 13:
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We stopped Twitter/X a few months ago, we are doing Bluesky and Facebook. Our engagement in Bluesky is about what we were seeing on X, honestly maybe a little bit better actually. Happy to chat more directly ; )

~Beth

As you may be aware, X (formerly Twitter) recently announced a change in its terms of service indicating that, as of November 15, all posts and content can be used to train its AI models. (There appears to be an opt-out option for those in the EU due to more stringent privacy regulations, but not for those outside…[Read more]

We have seen this issue on Amazon.ca in relation to our edited collections and it makes everyone unhappy. We brought up the issue a number of times in meetings with Amazon representatives and nothing changed.

Our response was to eliminate dozens of contributor names from our metadata (contributors, foreword and afterword writers) so…[Read more]

I think most of the UPs have that issue, and it's been a challenge with so many different options popping up as the landscape changes. I wish I could do a lot more than what I have the time to do. I use a lot of templated designs and language, and use AI to help with hashtags and writing content, and there's still not enough time to do…[Read more]

I'm curious as to what is prompting these discussions or what information your press is after. Social media is a big part of marketing for publishers and across all industries for branding and more.  At ColumbiaUP, I  have a breakdown of each platform and why we use it. The major reasons for using social media are branding and r…[Read more]

At UNC Press, social media is a major part of our marketing strategy and we devote a lot of time to monitoring, posting, creating graphics, strategizing, working with authors on their own social media efforts, etc. Most of our content is related to media coverage for books and authors, events, awards, conferences, blog posts, new and…[Read more]

This is a general question regarding the use of social media at your presses. How much time do you devote on a weekly basis to creating and posting content on your various social media platforms? What sort of content are you posting? And finally, how worthwhile do you feel the use of social media is for your press's…[Read more]

We had to add a separate "Agency" price for Apple eBooks, and the price must end in $.99. Apple also requires separate pricing supplied for every territory, while most channels only need USD.

Do you have access to recent ebook data feeds from your old system? It might be helpful to look at those and see whether these prices were used there, and if so, to what vendors.

LOC are getting both book files (PDF) and metadata (ONIX), so pre-publication/galley PDFs would be needed if someone wanted to use this to apply for print…[Read more]

I'm wondering if it is to create a price that works for Apple. They require a price that ends in ".99" and require the price to be the best one on offer. Just a guess.

When we first starting pricing e-editions, we dropped the ebook prices by 80%. And we have been pricing our print editions with prices ending in .99 rather than .95 for…[Read more]

This is a price calculated by some means…[Read more]

We have struggled to get edition information removed from titles and the issue has recently come up again. The argument is that Amazon, in particular, doesn't display edition information well--it is "buried" down in the publication details. Has anyone else had this come up? Do you include the edition information in the description to make it…[Read more]