History
This British computer scientist invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
Who is Sir Tim Berners-Lee?
This non-profit group published the first eBook in 1971.
What is Project Gutenberg?
This "everything store" acts as both a retailer and a platform for publishing. It has had a disruptive effect on publishing since launching in 1995.
What is Amazon?
This type of author publishes their work without the help of an established press.
Who is a self-published or indie author?
This term refers to publishing using digital formats, with a focus on the content, not the medium.
What is digital publishing?
This company's mass book digitization effort, which has since scanned more than 40 million titles, was ruled to be fair use in 2013.
What is Google?
This language is responsible for the presentation of markup languages, including HTML. It can create uniform styles, such as those used on a website.
What is Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)?
Pricing demands by Amazon around these types of books, as well as customer expectations of their costs, has impacted the sales of their paperback equivalents.
What are eBooks?
This person represents authors to publishers, helping secure the best deal possible for a book.
Who is a literary agent?
This concept, employed throughout the creation and production of media, supports social inclusion for people with disabilities as well as others.
What is accessibility?
This was one of the first publishing sectors to move into digital publishing.
What is reference publishing?
This information architecture tool is used to visualize how to content will be displayed.
What is a wire frame?
This intellectual property licensing structure allows creators to assign their own protections for their work, such as using an Attribution, or CC-BY, license.
What is Creative Commons?
This department of a publishing house promotes books throughout the supply chain.
What is marketing?
These are the three components of printing, whether in a physical or a digital form.
What are ink, paper, and binding?
This file type was a proprietary format controlled by Adobe until 2008. It is now one of the most popular e-publication formats and can be created specifically to be accessible.
What is portable document format (PDF)?
This phrase refers to the view from a rich text editor directly reflecting what is displayed on a web page.
What is What You See Is What You Get?
These two groups of people are more engaged with books than the general population, yet less books are marketed to them.
Who are Black and Hispanic people?
This person concerns themself with the strategy that guides the creation, delivery, and governance of content.
Who is a content strategist?
This can help grab attention and keep people interested. It can also help add value to a product. Podcasts are one example of it.
What is multimedia?
This term for when a book is available for purchase at the same time around the world, was heavily enforced for this 2005 book about a boy wizard.
What is a global lay down date?
This activity performed by search engines involves ordering indexes of pages from most relevant to least relevant.
What is ranking?
This term refers to the publishing of freely available, publicly accessible journals, book chapters, or other e-publications.
What is Open Access (OA)?
This tool can deliver and receive content from audiences and be powerful for marketing, but strategists must remain abreast of trends to be successful in using it.
What is social media?
This term refers to the structure of a website or other digital publication, including how it is organized, labeled, navigated, and searched.
What is information architecture?