DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN
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
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
The Digital Supply Chain Today and Tomorrow - December 2008
BIC Digital Supply Chain Workshop - May 2008
Channels to market: the publisher perspective
Graham Bell, HarperCollins Publishers
Channels to market: the trade and retailer perspective
Simon Morley, Gardners Books
Discovering digital content and marketing materials in databases
Peter Mathews, Nielsen BookData
Evelyn Nicholas, Bowker
The role of ISTC in the management of e-content
Julian Sowa, Nielsen Registration Services
Identification issues for digital content
Brian Green, International ISBN Agency
Reporting user-defined digital content
Ben Groves-Raines, Penguin Group UK
Commercial transactions to support the digital supply chain
Andrew May-Miller, Macmillan Publishers
