Amazon.com's Advantage Program
Program that allows independent authors
to sell their books online on Amazon.
Baker
and Taylor
Supplies multimedia, books, and related information services to libraries and retailers. The largest
wholesaler in the US for books.
Barcode
Code on the back of a book associated with the ISBN that allows a machine to read book details.
Required for a book to be sold with a retailer.
Bleed
The part of an image that extends beyond the trim size of a page.
Used for images that extend straight to the edges of a book’s cover or page.
Book Block
The files for the interior of
your book.
Books in Print
A database managed by R. R. Bowker of books in or about to print.
CMYK
Colors sphere of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black used in printing to create full-color
prints.
Copy Edit
Editing
of a book that checks for grammar, spelling, punctuation and other mistakes.
Copyright
Legal protection given to intellectual property.
Digital Printing
A type of computer file printing
usually used to print books in a small quantity.
DPI
Dots per inch. A measure of image quality (resolution) in pixels. Most printers require a 300 dpi minimum on all images.
E-Book
An electronic version of a book.
Exclusive Copyright
Rights over an intellectual property granted exclusively to an individual
or entity and may not be issued to any other individual or entity.
Full-Color
Printing using CMYK.
Grayscale
An image that is in various shades of black and white.
ISBN
International Standards Book Number. An international
number that uniquely identifies a book, usually used to track sales. For more information about ISBN's, please see visit
www.isbn.org.
LCCN
Library
of Congress Control Number. A number requested from the Library of Congress so that a book may be listed in their catalog.
Required to have the book listed in libraries.
List Price
The suggested retail price assigned to a book.
Long Run Printing
A term
used to describe a large quantity of books being printed, usually over 500 copies.
Manuscript
The book in typewritten or word processing
form.
Non-Exclusive Copyright
Rights
over an intellectual property granted to an individual or entity but may be dually issued to another individual or entity.
Offset Printing
A type of machine printing usually used to print a large quantity of
books.
PDF
Portable Document Format. A universal file format that preserves the fonts, images,
graphics and layout from a source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it.
Perfect Bound
Paperback books.
Press Release
A written article relaying news, usually sent to newspapers and magazines. Can be used to inform the public about your book.
Print-on-Demand (POD)
Type of printing where books are printed one at a time, usually
when ordered by a customer or retailer.
Resolution
The quality or sharpness of an
image, usually defined by dpi.
Retailer
A company
that sells manufactured goods usually bought at wholesale price.
RGB
Colors
sphere of red, green, and blue used in most printing.
Royalty
The payment an author
receives from a publisher of a certain percentage of sales of their book.
R.R. Bowker
The only agency in the United States authorized to issue ISBN's.
Short
Run Printing
A term used to describe a small quantity of books being printed, usually under 500 copies.
Template
A pre-set format or design for files.
Trim
Size
The width and height of a book after it has been printed, cut, and bound.
Wholesaler
A distribution company that allows
bookstores and libraries to order multiple titles from multiple publishers.
W-9
A tax form used to request a social security number
for tax reporting purposes, usually used by companies that issue royalties.
