What are the advantages of ONIX for Books 3.0?
• Redundant elements have been eliminated. • Digital products can be more fully and consistently described, and the groundwork has been laid for further development in this area, as new product formats and content packages evolve. • The handling of series, sets and multiple-item products – an acknowledged problem in earlier releases – has been greatly improved. As part of this improvement, there is a new extended title composite, which enables title detail to be more accurately expressed. • Publishers and others are using a much greater variety of “marketing collateral” – typically web resources – to support the promotion and sale of physical and digital products. • For ONIX users working in international markets, particularly the international English-language market, supply-related elements in ONIX 3.0 have been regrouped to allow the status of a product in different markets to be more clearly and accurately described. • With the introduction of the ISTC (International Standard Text
