David Martin

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ONIX for Books 3.0

• David Martin
• Helping Customers Find Your e-Books
• PA / UCL Digital Publishing Forum, Wednesday 25
  March 2009

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ONIX for Books 3.0

• Remove deprecated elements
• Improve handling of digital products
• Improve handling of multiple-item products, sets
  and items in series
• More flexible description of marketing
  collateral
• Improve handling of market-specific data
• New breakdown of product records into blocks,
  to allow partial updates

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Digital products product form

• All existing Epub elements scrapped
• Product form description for digital products now
  integrated with other products in Product Form
  and Product Form Detail coding
• Top-level coding based on delivery method D
  codes for digital content delivered on a physical
  carrier, E codes for digital content accessed
  online or delivered by download (also new L
  codes for licences sold separately)
• Format specified in Product Form Detail
• ONIX 3.0 works best if ISBN guidelines are
  followed

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Digital products usage constraints

• New elements added for optional encoding of a
  limited set of usage constraints
• Usage type eg preview, print extract, copy
  extract, share, read aloud
• Usage status permitted without limit, permitted
  with limit, prohibited
• Usage limit expressed quantitatively

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Digital products supply channels

• ONIX for Books 1.n and 2.n were specified with
  the physical supply chain in mind
• publisher gt wholesaler gt retailer
• Variety of supply channels for digital products,
  eg
• publisher gt end-user
• packager gt end-user
• retailer gt end-user
• Handled in ONIX 3.0 by new guidelines and code
  values rather than new elements

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More information

• www.editeur.org
• David Martin david_at_polecat.dircon.co.uk