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BISG Committees

Digital Standards Committee
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here to view a list of participating
companies.
The Digital Standards Committee was formed in July 2007 and is
chaired by Leslie Hulse of HarperCollins. The Committee is open to all
BISG members. Members currently involved include representatives from
publishers, booksellers, search engines, service providers and other
organizations.
The purpose of the Committee is to develop industry-wide
standards and best practices that support the production, distribution,
marketing, sale, discovery and use of books in digital form.
Current initiatives:
BookDROP version 1.0
BookDROP is a standard intended to support the search and
discovery of digital book content on the Web. It was first published on
December 8, 2008 and was developed jointly by the Book Industry Study Group and
the Association of American Publishers. BookDROP defines a set of HTTP
transactions between a publisher’s digital book archive and the websites of the
publisher’s syndication partners. The overall goal of BookDROP 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.
Click
here to
download version 1.0 of the BookDROP technical specification.
Download the Briefing Paper and Requirements Document from the Association of
American Publishers that led to the development of BookDROP.
Digital Standards Committee Chairperson
Leslie Hulse, Vice President, Global Marketing &
Internet Strategy
HarperCollins Publishers
Email digitalstandards_chair@bisg.org
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