Imagine there be a library with books on tables, shelves, would be presented in plastic, dressed in a white blanket on which the title would be capitalized consistently truncated to 30 characters?
Not convenient for customers is not it?
suicidal for the seller, bookseller.
Fortunately, anxious to sell, the publisher provides libraries brick books whose first cover are colorful, eloquent, whose fourth show, cleverly, content.
regard to libraries on the internet it is quite another. Some publishers know that booksellers are trying to answer on the Internet, the needs of their customers (see the stock of their library from home, buy books, book them at times when booksellers are sleeping) and trying to preserve market share than just their challenge Amazon.
Those few publishers or publishing groups (one very large: Editis "small" as Quae, Au Diable vauvert Belles letters, two handles more ...) provide Internet booksellers, Onix format, via FTP, all necessary information (author, title, cover images, prices, ...) to a good presentation and effective marketing works. Sometimes even a possibility to browse the books online. And, of course, these are the books we sell the best.
Most other publishers acted as if the Internet did not exist.
I do not think they have decided that two or three libraries on the Internet, Amazon, Fnac, Rue du Commerce (with the capacity to capture and scan for themselves in their offices or warehouses Yet all the information available from the publishers) are sufficient. They have other concerns. Or they do not care.
Dear editors, please, stop pretending to believe that the Internet is free of commercial interest!
The challenge of the battle is not only shipping packages by booksellers / strings containing Gutenberg books. It is also know if tomorrow will take place that Amazon will be so dominant that in the chain of digital books, you will not have a single independent bookseller as interlocutor. So
Vice President Circle the bookstore I struggled to free access to all the French at the base Electra library (so for another method of financing the necessary basic and remarkable Electra). Vain. Some publishers did not find this fight on to revolutionize the mode of Electra.
Two years ago there was need, dear friends publishers, you weigh them in battle, legal, free shipping offered by Amazon for our users. This port is "free" makes it unlikely that the balance of accounts of booksellers on the Internet and therefore prohibited, to most of them market access. Your silence in this battle was deafening.
current lack access to Electra was released (and now the priority is rather to save Elektra), it is necessary that you put just available to booksellers who wish to server FTP, file metadata to sell your books.
Is that so complicated? Publishers like
Quae, as the Devil Vauvert as presses Science-Po, etc., have adopted the software GiantChair. ( http://www.giantchair.com : free advertising!). It a simple solution. Practice. Immediately. Technologically perfect.
past decade there have emergency release metadata.
Every day the emergency becomes more urgent.
Consider what happened to the companies 'majors' drive for deliberately sacrificed the network of stores, for having, by cowardice, failed to offer on the internet an acceptable offer for lovers of hard, for having, by greed , built a pricing policy contemptuous and unacceptable by customers.
Really, do not leave us helpless in the face of Amazon. Amazon does not let alone, or substantially in the running. There will also, for your interest.
Free your metadata in favor of sellers of books.
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