BISG Releases New BookDrop Standard to Help Ease Discovery of Online Book Content

The trade association Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has released version 1.0 of its BookDROP technical specification, a new standard intended to support the search and discovery of digital book content on the Web.

According to BISG, BookDROP defines a set of HTTP transactions between a publisher’s digital-book archive and the Web sites of the publisher’s syndication partners. The overall goal of the standard is to encourage the discovery, search, browse and distribution of digital book content across the Web, while allowing publishers to manage the quality and availability of their content.