ONIX

  • BNC 101: On Sale Date

    There are a lot of potential dates that can be listed in an ONIX record. In this post, we’re going to focus on Publication Date vs On Sale Date.

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    BNC 101: Publication Dates

    We’ve been hearing rumblings about publication date confusion when it comes to digital books. I’m going to cover publication dates here—for ebooks and print books—to settle the matter once and for all.

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    ONIX Is Easy

    At BookNet, we sometimes find ourselves trying to defend ONIX . People are often asking, “Why can’t it be easy?” But it is. After the last time I heard this I thought that a review of why ONIX is easy was due.

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    Increase Sales and Lower Costs with Better Metadata

    More and more digital platforms are sourcing their content from ONIX files, which makes it easy for publishers to take part without increasing their workload. The catch, though, is that the information needs to be in the ONIX files to be shared, and currently most publishers are not including enough information in the files they’re…

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    BNC 101: What Is ONIX?

    ONIX for Books is an international standard for exchanging important information about books and related products.Here we take you through the basics: what you need to know about ONIX and how to use it.

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    BNC 101: What Is XML?

    What is XML? is the first in a series of BNC 101 blog posts where we’re going to try our best to break down some of the complex tech concepts we talk about all the time into plain language. XML is a term that gets thrown around the publishing industry a lot, but what does…

  • ONIXEdit vs. EXA Editor

    EXA Editor is the venerable XML editor for use with ONIX that BookNet Canada made available as a free download for the past few years. It was an excellent product with a not-so-excellent GUI (nerdese for your ability to find and click on things) and a useful tool for learning about ONIX. A number of…