History
This was the first complete book printed with movable type.
What is the Gutenberg Bible?
This general term refers to tool that are used by people with disabilities to accomplish tasks.
What is assistive technology?
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.
What is a self-published 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 CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)?
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.
What 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 wireframe?
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 are Creative Commons licenses?
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 Act of Parliament, passed in 1709, was the first legislation to regulate copyright by government rather than by private parties.
What is the Statute of Anne?
This activity performed by search engines involves ordering indexes of pages from most relevant to least relevant.
What is ranking?
This is the deliberate, intentional provision of access to all individuals
What is equitable access?
This work concerns the strategy that guides the creation, delivery, and governance of content.
What is content strategy?
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 a 2005 novel about a boy wizard.
Global lay down date
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 (WYSIWYG)?
According to the Diversity Baseline Survey 3.0, the disabled population increased from 11% to 16.2%. The change may be due to the increased implementation of this type of work.
Remote work
This field investigates the positive or negative aspects of the way a user interacts with a product, system, or service.
What is user experience?
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?