Brisbane self publishing glossary & terms used in self publishing & printing provided by Love of Books self publishing success offered to clients in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Canberra, Hobart & Australia-wide.

AB&P - Australian Bookseller & Publisher.

ABA - Australian Booksellers Association.

Agent - May be somebody commissioned by a publisher or distributor to sell books to retail outlets, or somebody who represents the interests of an author.

APA Australian Publishers Association (formerly ABPA)

ABPA – Australian Book Publishers Association

ARP Australian Recommended Price. Now RRP (see below).

AusBiP Australian Books in Print.

Barcode A code printed on a product which can be read by an electronic barcode scanner. Used by publishers, booksellers and libraries to identify, order, sell and manage books using computerized inventory systems.

Binding - the type of cover of a book – generally expressed as either hardback or paperback, but sometimes as cased (hardback) or limp/soft back (paperback). © Copyright.

CAL Copyright Agency Limited.

CiP Cataloguing-in-Publication.

Copyediting - Checking a manuscript for grammar, spelling and typographical errors, and inconsistencies in style.

CRA - Camera-ready artwork/art. Final film or bromide version of a manuscript, ready for printing, as opposed to providing the version on a disk.

Discount - A percentage of the RRP of a book subtracted by the publisher when supplying the book to a retailer.

Distributor - Somebody who supplies other publishers’ books to retailers.

Extent - The number of pages in a book.

FIS - Free Into Store. The publisher bears the freight costs of supplying books to retail outlets.

FS - Firm Sale. A term of trade under which a retail outlet cannot return unsold books to the publisher or distributor.

Folio - Page number.

Full-colour - CMYK - Printing using the four-colour process, which uses the ‘process colours’ cyan (blue), magenta (red), yellow and black (CMYK) to make any colour needed.

GNAB - Guide to New Australian Books 

Hard copy - A printed version of a manuscript or other text, as opposed to an electronic copy of the text (on computer or disk).

Imprint page - Usually the reverse page of a book’s title page. Carries information such as CiP data, including a book’s ISBN, copyright line, publication date, and information about the publisher and printer.

ISBN - International Standard Book Number. (It is incorrect to say ‘ISBN number’ – use simply ‘ISBN’.)

ISSN - International Standard Serial Number.

Legal Deposit - Statutory provision to ensure that copies of all publications in Australia are lodged with the National Library of Australia and State Libraries.

Manuscript (MS) - The copy of a book.

NLA - National Library of Australia.

Returns Unsold books returned to the publisher or distributor.

RRP - Recommended Retail Price. The GST-inclusive price at which the publisher recommends that retail outlets sell the book.

SOR - Sale Or Return. Term of trade under which a retail outlet may return unsold books to a publisher or distributor, usually within a specified time frame.

Supplier - Somebody who supplies books to retail outlets. May be a publisher or a distributor.

Terms of trade- The terms, including discount and returns policy, under which a publisher or distributor supplies books to retail outlets.

WBN -Weekly Book Newsletter.

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