As more book sales migrate online, publishers and their trading partners are increasingly focused on discovery—making sure that readers are aware of and able to access books that meet their interests ...

There was a time when metadata—descriptive information such as a book's title, author, or BISAC codes—was something only the warehouse crew had to worry about. "No one saw it," said Laura Dawson, CEO ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Two years ago, Google Books was becoming the world’s largest digital library and, with an effective ...

There is no shortage of authors writing books and thanks to the multitude of platforms to create an ebook or a print-on-demand physical book, there is also no shortage of ways an author can go about ...

You’ve downloaded a shiny new EPUB from somewhere that isn’t Apple’s rechristened iBooks Store, and it’s on your Desktop in OS X 10.9 Mavericks. You drop that ...

Two newly published bibliographic standards Best Practices documentations for the publishing industry outline how to highlight Indigenous content and contributors in book metadata. Published by ...

Google's core Internet search technology famously grew out of a grad school project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to index the world's books, and the modern Google Books Project actually touts itself ...