ONIX 3.0 Raises Standard for Ebook Metadata
Why book publishers should migrate to ONIX 3.0 standards to better manage their digital offerings
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There are a number of changes that arise from the increasingly global nature of the book trade. In 2.1, only minimal information about rights was required -- "Is this book for sale in Canada?" -- yet this doesn't meet the business needs of retailers who operate globally. Version 3.0 requires much more comprehensive information (even if this is simply a list of countries for which the rights position is unknown). The description of complex international distribution and supply arrangements is considerably more clear in 3.0. And while ONIX has always worked in any language, 3.0 enables sophisticated multi-language, multi-script metadata, so the description of a book that is in Spanish could be given in both English and Spanish in parallel.
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Graham Bell
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