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Also marketed to general bookstores, college stores, and department stores and may be either an original publication that has never appeared in any other format or a reprint of a previously published hardcover or trade paperback edition here made available at a significantly lower price.
Merge To combine two or more mailing lists into a single list with elimination of duplicate names. Later it became the National Association of College Bookstores; later still, it adopted its present name to indicate the breadth of the merchandise carried by stores catering to college communities.
National Book Committee A nonprofit society founded in New York in and discontinued in , devoted to the "wider and wiser use of books. The committee cooperated particularly with the American Library Association and the Association of American Publishers, among other national groups.
Net price What a wholesaler or bookseller pays for a product after all discounts and allowances have been made. Net pricing A method of determining a wholesale price without reference to a suggested retail price. Under net pricing in the book industry, the publisher sets the price of a book to the bookseller or wholesaler, and each bookselling and wholesaling operation establishes its own resale price to the consumer, thus determining its own margin of profit.
No cover price is preprinted on the book or jacket, and the retail price can vary from dealer to dealer. On-demand book, on-demand printing A book manufactured as a single copy at the time a customer wants to buy it. On-demand systems are still not common, being used primarily to produce copies of scholarly works. However, new technology for on-demand printing, based on computers and laser imaging, is developing rapidly and should affect certain types of scientific, technical, and business publishing in the next few years.
Overrun In printing Copies printed in excess of the specified quantity. Printing agreements usually specify allowable overruns. Page makeup In stripping, assembly of all elements to make up a page. In phototypesetting, the electronic assembly of a page on a video display terminal and on the phototypesetter.
Paper master A paper printing plate used on an offset-duplicator. The image is made by hand drawing, typewriter, or electrophotography. Paperback original A work of either fiction or nonfiction published in paperback format without having been available previously as a hardcover. Paperback rights The rights to publish a book in a mass market or trade paperback, as opposed to hardcover, format.
The rights may be to a paperback original or to a paperback reprint. Rights to mass market and trade paperback editions are usually negotiated separately, but they can be combined in a package deal. Partial remaindering Selling off at sale or remainder prices an excess portion of a publisher's unsold stock of a book, rather than the entire stock.
Thus, some part of the stock remains in print to be sold at the publisher's list price. Photo-composing In phototypesetting, the assembly of separate elements into an integrated page layout. In platemaking, exposure of multiple images on a plate. More correctly called step-and-repeat. Photomechanical Pertaining to any platemaking process using photographic negatives or positives exposed onto plates or cylinders covered with photosensitive coatings. Pica Printer's unit of measurement used principally in measuring lines.
Plant costs Although the components will vary from publisher to publisher according to accounting procedures, these generally are the one-time costs in manufacturing a book, such as those involved in preparation of artwork and illustrations, composition, plates, etc. Preprint A copy of a book or section of a book or periodical usually issued in a limited paperbound quantity for some special purpose before publication date.
Presensitized plate In photomechanics, a metal or paper plate that has been precoated with a light-sensitive coating. Press kit An information package, usually a folder with flaps or pockets, containing a press release, glossy photo of the author, information from the book, advance quotes or reviews for the book.
Used as a publicity or sales promotion tool. Press proofs In color reproduction, a proof of a color subject on a printing press, in advance of the production run. Press release An information sheet about a book and its author, used as a publicity tool. Publication date The date, more and more theoretical, when a book is made available to the public. The theory holds that a book will be released on publication date in retail outlets across the country; this is the day on which the publisher hopes to orchestrate the appearances of book reviews, advertisements, publicity, and perhaps an author tour.
To achieve simultaneous introduction of a book throughout the country, publishers must send out review copies and start the promotion and distribution processes well in advance of publication date.
Today more and more publishers ship books up to several months ahead of the publication date, which has become known as the "release date. This person also transmits complaints and assists in promotional activities.
Remainder A publisher's overstock of a title whose sales have slackened, offered at a greatly reduced price through jobbers and booksellers. A remainder may sell so well that a publisher or wholesaler will be induced to reprint an inexpensive hardcover edition of the remainder and advertise it accordingly.
Normally no royalties are paid on this stock reduction. Reprint A term used in the publishing industry to indicate a new printing of a book. Reproduction proof In composition, the proof of a type form for purposes of photographic reproduction. Returns Unsold books returned for cash or credit to the publisher.
The publisher's stated terms for doing this constitute its return policy. Whereas hardcover trade publishers require that unsold books be returned in "mint condition" for full credit, mass market publishers usually receive stripped returns, i.
Review copies Copies of a newly published work dispatched by its publisher without charge to obtain a review, notice, or record in trade, consumer, or professional publications. Right-angle fold In binding, a term used for two or more folds that are at degree angles to each other.
Rights Rights to a literary property include the following: prepublication serial first serial rights ; book publication, including book club; postpublication serial second serial rights ; book reprint; dramatization; musical comedy; amateur leasing; motion picture commercial and noncommercial ; radio, television; mechanical, electronic, or xerographic reproduction or other kinds covered in the inclusive term reprographic reproduction; condensation and abridgment; anthology; translation; quotation; merchandising and other commercial exploitation rights.
Most of these are also commonly referred to as subsidiary rights and are governed by the prevailing copyright law. Royalty A compensation to the author or owner of a copyright paid by the publisher, usually on the percentage of the list price of the book net price in academic or university press publishing on each copy sold, but sometimes paid on a percentage of the wholesale price or on the publisher's total receipts.
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