Indie Publishing and E-Publishing Glossary (By Tags)
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age labels
adult, age band, [age label], New Adult, Young Adult
business relationships
crowdsource, ghostwrite, speculative work
copyright
audio rights, Berne Convention, [copyright], copyright notice, derivative work, digital rights management, economic right, exclusive license, film rights, intellectual property, license, moral right, non-exclusive license, public domain, revert, subsidiary right
digital images
bitmap image, dots per inch, JPEG, pixels per inch, Portable Network Graphics, resolution, Scalable Vector Graphics, stock image, vector image
display technology
aspect ratio, E Ink, liquid-crystal display, orientation, pixels per inch, resolution
e-book production
Adobe InDesign, back matter, bitmap image, body matter, body text, Cascading Style Sheets, colophon, digital rights management, Dublin Core, e-book, [e-book production], e-reading environment, endnote, EPUB, field test, file format, fixed format, font, footnote, front matter, HyperText Markup Language, KF8, Kindle format, link, manuscript, metadata, MOBI, pixels per inch, Portable Document Format, Portable Network Graphics, quality assurance, reflowable, resolution, Scalable Vector Graphics, stylesheet, template, type design, typeface, typeset, Unicode, validate, vector image, word count
e-publishing
backlist, e-book, e-book production, [e-publish], e-reader, e-reading environment, edition, manuscript, metadata, typeset, word count
e-reading devices
Amazon Kindle, e-reader, iPad, smartphone, tablet
file formats
EPUB, JPEG, KF8, Kindle format, MOBI, Portable Document Format, Portable Network Graphics, Scalable Vector Graphics
funding
advance, crowdfund, donation, earn out, independent publishing, micropatronage, patronage, self-publish, subscription, traditional publishing, vanity publishing
genres
[genre]
independent publishing
backlist, bundle sale, copyright, crowdfund, e-book, e-book production, e-publish, exclusive license, hybrid author, [independent publishing], license, manuscript, micropatronage, non-exclusive license, pay-what-you-want, publishing process, royalty, subsidiary right, writing process
parts of a book
back matter, body matter, colophon, copyright notice, endnote, footnote, front matter
pricing
print publishing
backlist, dots per inch, edition, out of print, page count, print run, proofread
publishing process
advance review copy, blurb, endorsement, International Standard Book Number, print run, [publishing process]
software
Adobe InDesign, app, operating system
traditional publishing
advance, backlist, book proposal, hybrid author, literary agent, out of print, print run, revert, royalty, slush pile, [traditional publishing]
typesetting
alignment, back matter, body matter, body text, Cascading Style Sheets, centered, colophon, endnote, fixed format, flush left, flush right, font, footnote, front matter, HyperText Markup Language, justified, link, pixels per inch, reflowable, stylesheet, type design, typeface, [typeset], Unicode
writing process
copy editing, critique, endnote, footnote, style sheet, stylistic editing, substantive editing, target audience, word count, [writing process]
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