History
This is the oldest media industry.
What is book publishing?
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.
What is Amazon?
This type of author publishes their work without the help of an established press.
Who is a self-published author?
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 was one of the first publishing sectors to move into digital publishing.
What is reference publishing?
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 "digital campfire" has over 45 million users and 300 million self-published stories. It has launched authors including Anna Todd.
What is Wattpad?
This person represents authors to publishers, helping secure the best deal possible for a book.
Who is a literary agent?
In this business model, fans raise money for the publication of a book.
What is crowdfunding?
This term refers to works that are not protected by intellectual property laws, including copyright.
What is the public domain?
This valuable commodity is collected through a person's page interactions, searches, purchase history, and other activities and used for many purposes, including marketing and metadata strategies.
What is user data?
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 (or Google Books)?
This department of a publishing house promotes books throughout the supply chain.
What is marketing?
The global laydown date, where 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 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince?
Fan fiction developed in this century and included stories about works like Gulliver’s Travels.
What is the 18th century?
This activity performed by search engines involves ordering indexes of pages from most relevant to least relevant.
What is ranking?
This online audiobook and podcast service was purchased by Amazon for $300 million in 2008.
What is Audible?
This type of strategy guides the creation, delivery, and governance of content.
What is content strategy?
This term refers to the publishing of freely available, publicly accessible journals, book chapters, or other e-publications.
What is Open Access?
This inventor's 1877 rendition of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was the first phonograph recording.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This concept, employed throughout the creation and production of media, supports social inclusion for people with disabilities as well as others.
What is accessibility?
These types of book retailers are owned by sole proprietorships or small groups. Some specialize in particular types of books, such as works by Black authors.
What is an independent bookstore?
This field investigates the positive or negative aspects of the way a user interacts with a product, system, or service.
What is User eXperience (UX)?
This type of marketing technique includes displays in book shops and other retail outlets, online banners and similar tools, and physical posters placed where a book is to be sold.
What is Point of Sale (PoS) promotion?