DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN
BIC is actively promoting the adoption of standards in the digital supply chain through its Digital Supply Chain Group, with a primary focus on standardising sales reporting by resellers and identification of digital products. This is being done through a series of best practice guides and codes of practice.
Standards
EDItX Sales Report format
EDItX Sales Report Format Version 1.0 (March 2009)
This format (which replaces the previous EDItX Digital Sales Report Format Version 1.0 Draft 3) is intended to be used by a retailer, distributor or other intermediary in the e-book supply chain to report sales to a publisher or content owner; and to provide the basis on which payments are made. It can, however, also be used to report sales of physical books, for example when supplied on consignment.
Schema for EDItX Sales Report Format
BookDROP
BookDROP Version 1.0 (December 2008)
BookDROP is a standard developed jointly by the Book Industry Study Group and the Association of American Publishers to support the search and discovery of digital book content on the Web. It defines a set of HTTP transactions between a publisher's digital book archive and the websites of the publisher's syndication partners.
Publications
Digital Content Standards: Standards for digital book content delivery in trade and library supply chains, and issues surrounding their use in the UK
by Francis Cave (April 2010)
The International Standard Text Code: A Work in Progress
by Michael Holdsworth (March 2010)
Code of Practice for the Identification of e-books and Digital Content (December 2009)
Electronic transactions in the digital supply chain: a business case proposal (October 2008)
The Identification of Digital Book Content
by Michael Holdsworth (January 2008)
Seminar presentations
Facing the Challenge of Digital Change
December 2009
