Standards News

The ISBN system is fundamental to everything publishers do, but it is a piece of metadata that is often forgotten or ignored. IPA Secretary General,...
EPUB is widely deployed in book publishing and if the archival version of this is also standardized, it has the potential to become widely used...
Day 4 of this 42nd meeting of the SCCR picked up exactly where Day 3 left off, with discussions on exceptions and limitations and observer...
According to UNESCO, “Since 1967, International Literacy Day (ILD) celebrations have taken place annually around the world to remind the public of the importance of...
David Whitaker tells IPA President Richard Charkin about the path to a global identifier for books....
Can International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) remain relevant in an age of Amazon, ebooks and self publishing? Stella Griffiths of the International ISBN Agency told us...

The Bureau international de l'édition française (BIEF) has published new research into how digital rights are being acquired, and how translation rights for digital editions...

With publishers keen to boost the “discoverability” of their works and a growing realisation of the power of metadata to improve merchandising, sales and market...

IPA recognizes EPUB 3 as a preferred standard format for representing HTML and other web content for distribution as single-file publications.

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