BISG Committees

Digital Standards Committee

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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