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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

pay-what-you-want

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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