Posted Thursday, May 03, 2012
Nearly 100% of Publishers Have Seen E-Booksellers Get Their Metadata Wrong
Imagine if when a book hit Barnes & Noble store shelves it had a different cover than when the proof left the publisher.
That's what nearly all publishers are experiencing with their e-books, but in a digital way.
According to an upcoming study from the Book Industry Study Group set to come out in a month, 95% of publishers have had the experience of creating their e-books with one set of metadata and seeing an altered set of metadata at the point of sale, online booksellers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple.
Initial findings from the study, presented at the BISG Making Information Pay 2012 conference in New York today, suggest that many publishers have little control over their e-book metadata and little knowledge of when and where it gets processed and changed.
Metadata is a buzzword in digital publishing today. Publishers know they need to do it right, but there seems to be a poor industry-wide understanding of what exactly it is...
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That's what nearly all publishers are experiencing with their e-books, but in a digital way.
According to an upcoming study from the Book Industry Study Group set to come out in a month, 95% of publishers have had the experience of creating their e-books with one set of metadata and seeing an altered set of metadata at the point of sale, online booksellers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple.
Initial findings from the study, presented at the BISG Making Information Pay 2012 conference in New York today, suggest that many publishers have little control over their e-book metadata and little knowledge of when and where it gets processed and changed.
Metadata is a buzzword in digital publishing today. Publishers know they need to do it right, but there seems to be a poor industry-wide understanding of what exactly it is...
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