PUBLISHED JULY 2014 by Graham Bell, Executive Director, EDItEUR — It has become a cliché: Metadata is marketing. With online sales becoming yet more dominant, and sales through physical bookstores shrinking further, data about your product—as opposed to the product itself—becomes your primary con- tact with the customer and reader. All too often, metadata is …

PUBLISHED APRIL 2012 by Andre Breedt and David Walter, Nielsen BookScan — Perhaps more than any other industry the book trade is reliant on sharing product data in order to function efficiently. With the massive variety of products available the ISBN has been central to the industry for generations, and attaching accurate and appropriate information …

PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2011 by Mark Bide, Executive Director, EDItEUR — Adjusting business strategies in the light of the “switch to digital” necessitates familiarity with the complex landscape of standards. As noted in Part 1 of this series describing that landscape …

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2011 by Mark Bide, Executive Director, EDItEUR — With varying degrees of success, publishers of all types, alongside the music and movie industries, TV, and games—all the different sectors of what are often called the “copyright industries”—are adjusting …