NOOK Press Glossary of Terms
ACH
Automated
Clearing House (ACH) is used to send royalty payments earned through
your NOOK Press account. It is an electronic network for financial
transactions in the United States. ACH processes large volumes of
credit and debit transactions in batches. ACH credit transfers include
direct-deposit payroll and vendor payments.
BN ID
A
unique BN ID is assigned to every NOOK Book. It is a 13-digit number
that is displayed in the Product Details section of a NOOK Book's
customer product page. A BN ID is not an ISBN. If a NOOK Press
publisher submits an ISBN for a NOOK Book, all sales and payment
reporting will reference both the BN ID we created AND the ISBN the
NOOK Press publisher provided.
Broadcast
A
Broadcast is an important message from NOOK Press. Broadcasts can be
seen at the top of the Projects page in a blue bar. Clicking on the
text allows you to read the full broadcast.
Categories
The
subject categories that you enter for your NOOK Book tell us where to
place your customer product page in the NOOK Bookstore so that
customers browsing through our categories can find NOOK Books that
interest them.
Collaboration
Collaboration
lets you invite anyone to collaborate with you on your Project. This
will allow them to read your Manuscript and add comments on a chapter
level. You can read their comments and respond in the document, and you
can also delete their comments if desired.
Copyright
Copyright
is a legal concept giving the creator of an original work exclusive
rights to it, usually for a limited time. For more details please
review the Copyright Wikipedia article.
Please consult a legal advisor for more information about how Copyright
laws apply to the NOOK Books you wish to sell through NOOK Press.
Crop
Crop
means to select only a portion of an uploaded image, instead of the
entire image. There is a crop tool in the NOOK Press cover image
uploader that allows you to crop the image file that you upload. The
cropped portion of the cover image will be displayed on the NOOK Book's
customer product page. The publisher can also choose to insert the
cropped cover image inside the NOOK Book.
Contributor
A
Contributor is someone who helped create a NOOK Book. NOOK Press
publishers can assign up to 8 different Contributor types for each NOOK
Book: Author, Editor, Illustrator, Translator, Photographer,
Introduction, Compiler and Created By.
Cover Image
The
cover image you provide will appear on your NOOK Book's customer
product page, and you can also choose to insert the Cover Image at the
beginning of your NOOK Book as part of the front matter. We find that
the quality of a cover image has a direct impact on sales. Please
remember that you must have the rights to use any cover image that you
upload to NOOK Press.
Customer Price
The
Customer Price is the price a customer pays for a NOOK Book. The
Customer Price may be different from the List Price. As the retailer,
NOOK reserves the right to set a Customer Price that is different from
the List Price. If a customer purchases a NOOK Book at a price that is
lower than the List Price, the publisher's royalty is still earned from
the List Price. The publisher's royalty for each NOOK Book sold is
earned from the List Price as described in the Pricing and Payment Terms.
Customer Reviews
A
Customer Review is a review submitted by a customer. Customers can
submit a written review that contains their opinion of a NOOK Book
along with a star rating based on a scale from one to five stars.
Customers are not required to make a purchase to submit a Customer
Review.
DMCA
The
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright
law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO). Please review the DMCA Wikipedia article
for more information. For information about reporting copyright
infringement to NOOK, please refer to the instructions on this page:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/include/copyright.asp
.doc and .docx
.doc and .docx are filename extensions for files created using Microsoft Word.
DRM
DRM
stands for Digital Rights Management, which is technology that is
intended to prevent unauthorised access to, distribution of, or copying
of your NOOK Book. If you choose to have DRM applied to your NOOK Book,
we will use this technology. This choice can only be made once per
Project and cannot be changed once selected. Please read our Terms
& Conditions for more information on our obligations regarding DRM.
To learn more about DRM, visit the Wikipedia entry.
eBook
eBook
is short for "electronic book"—a book or any text (like a novel, short
story, essay, children’s story, poetry collection etc.) that is
digitised and made available for viewing via a laptop/desktop computer,
a handheld computer/tablet, a smartphone or a dedicated eReading
device, like a NOOK.
Editorial Reviews
An Editorial Review is a review of a NOOK Book created by the editorial staff of a periodical publication.
ePub
ePub
is an open source, industry-standard eBook file format. When you put
your Project On Sale as a NOOK Book, it becomes an .ePub file for
customers to download as a NOOK Book. For more information on ePub,
visit the IDPF Website or the Wikipedia entry.
Front Matter
Front
Matter are optional elements that can be included in a Manuscript that
contain information about the NOOK Book. Using the Manuscript Editor,
you can add a Cover Image, Title, Dedication, Introduction and a Table
Contents as Front Matter. The term "Front Matter" refers to the
placement of these elements, which is at the very beginning of a NOOK
Book before any other content.
eGift
NOOK Books and NOOK Apps can be eGifted to anyone with a valid email address
(currently only available for BN.com). You do not need a NOOK device to
purchase a digital gift, and your eGift recipient does not need one
either; they may read on any NOOK device, or on devices they already
own using NOOK’s free apps for Android, iPad, iPhone, Windows 8, Mac
and PC. The eGift recipient is notified via email that someone has
purchased an eGift for them, and the customer has a choice to redeem
the eGifted NOOK Book OR select an eGift card for redemption on any
product at NOOK. For further details around the customer experience
side of eGifting, please visit our BN.com eGifting FAQs.
EIN
An
Employer Identification Number or EIN (also known as Federal Employer
Identification Number or (FEIN)) is the corporate equivalent to a
Social Security Number. Please review the EIN Wikipedia article for details.
.html and .htm
.html
and .htm are filename extensions for files created using the HyperText
Markup Language. HTML is the main markup language for creating web
pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.
HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags
enclosed in angle brackets (like < html >), within the web page
content. HTML tags most commonly come in pairs such as < b > and
< /b >, although some tags are unpaired, for example < img
>.
ISBN
An
ISBN is a 10- or 13-digit number that uniquely identifies published
books worldwide. ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number.
You do NOT need an ISBN to sell your NOOK Book through NOOK Press. If
you don't have an ISBN, just click "No" beneath "Do you have an
eBook-specific ISBN?" on the Title & Description page.
Keywords
The search Keywords ensure that a NOOK Book is included in a search for the terms entered.
List Price
The
List Price is the price a NOOK Press publisher sets for a NOOK Book.
The NOOK Press publisher's royalty for each NOOK Book sold is earned
from the List Price as described in the Pricing and Payment Terms. The
Customer Price may be different from the List Price. As the retailer,
NOOK reserves the right to set a Customer Price that is different from
the List Price. If a customer purchases a NOOK Book at a price that is
lower than the List Price, the royalty is still earned from the List
Price.
Manuscript
A
Manuscript is the text and/or images inside the Manuscript Editor. A
Manuscript can be created in the Manuscript Editor by typing or
inserting images directly into the Manuscript Editor, or a Manuscript
can be created in the Manuscript Editor by uploading a .doc, .docx,
.txt, .rtf, .htm, .html or .ePub manuscript file into the Manuscript
Editor.
Manuscript Editor
The
Manuscript Editor is where you can create a new Manuscript inside your
NOOK Press Project, or, if you have a manuscript file that you’ve
already created, you can import it into the Manuscript Editor by
clicking the Upload Manuscript File button. If you don’t have a
manuscript file that you’ve already created, you can start typing in
the Manuscript Editor to create your Manuscript.
Manuscript File
A
manuscript file contains text and/or images and was created outside of
NOOK Press. To upload a manuscript file to NOOK Press, it must be a
valid file in one of these formats: .doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf, .htm,
.html or .ePub
Metadata
Metadata
is important information about your NOOK Book that includes Title &
Description, Categories, Rights & Pricing, Editorial Reviews and
Other Information. All of this information together may also be
referred to as "NOOK Books Details" or "Product Data".
NOOK
NOOK
is a line of eReading products that includes dedicated eBook Readers
and tablets as well as free eReading software applications that work on
many different computing and mobile devices including Android, iPad,
iPhone, Windows 8, Mac and PC.
NOOK Book
A
NOOK Book is an eBook that is for sale through NOOK on BN.com,
NOOK.co.uk, NOOK devices and NOOK software for Android, iPad, iPhone,
Windows 8, Mac and PC.
NOOK Book Details
NOOK
Book Details is important information about your NOOK Book that
includes Title & Description, Categories, Rights & Pricing,
Editorial Reviews and Other Information. All of this information
together may also be referred to as your NOOK Book's "Product Data" or
"Metadata".
NOOK Press Project
A
NOOK Press Project is where you create everything needed to put a NOOK
Book On Sale. A NOOK Press Project contains a Manuscript, a Cover Image
and NOOK Book Details (also known as Product Data). There is also a
Collaboration tool inside each Project for you to invite others to work
with you on your Project.
Notification
A
Notification is a message from NOOK Press to a NOOK Press publisher.
Notifications can be seen by clicking the envelope in the top
right-hand corner of any page in a NOOK Press account.
Pixel
Short
for Picture Element, a Pixel is a single point in a graphic image.
Graphics monitors display pictures by dividing the display screen into
thousands (or millions) of pixels, arranged in rows and columns. The
pixels are so close together that they appear connected. The
quality of a display system largely depends on its resolution, how many
pixels it can display, and how many bits are used to represent each
pixel.
Profile
A
NOOK Press Profile contains the Forename, Surname, Email and Password
for a NOOK Press account. If you use the Collaboration feature, then
other NOOK Press users will be able to see your profile. You can also
add a photo on your profile page.
Publish
Click
the Publish button to put your NOOK Press Project On Sale as a NOOK
Book. Once your Project is On Sale as a NOOK Book, you can click View
Product Page to launch your NOOK Book’s customer product page at BN.com
into your browser.
PubIt!
PubIt!
by NOOK was an online, self-service Web portal that was first launched
in the autumn of 2010. PubIt! was designed for independent publishers
and authors to upload their manuscript files and make them available
for sale through the NOOK Bookstore. PubIt! has now been re-branded as
NOOK Press, which includes even more features and tools for authors.
Publishers who created their account at PubIt! can Log In to NOOK Press
using their PubIt! (BN.com customer account) account email and
password.
Public Domain
Works
in the Public Domain are those whose intellectual property rights have
expired, been forfeited or are inapplicable. For more details
please review the Public Domain Wikipedia article.
Please consult a legal advisor for more information about how Public
Domain laws apply to the NOOK Books, Cover Images and Product Data you
wish to sell through NOOK Press.
Publication Date
The
Publication Date is a NOOK Book's date of publication as entered by the
NOOK Press publisher. The Publication Date is displayed in the Product
Details section of a customer product page.
Royalty
A
NOOK Press publisher's Royalty is the amount earned from sales from a
NOOK Book put on sale through a NOOK Press account. See the Pricing and Payment Terms for more information on calculating your royalty.
.rtf
RTF
(Rich Text Format) is a proprietary document file format with published
specification developed by Microsoft Corporation for cross-platform
document interchange. Most word processors are able to read and write
some versions of RTF. There are several different revisions of RTF
specification and portability of files will depend on what version of
RTF is being used. RTF specifications are changed and published with
major Microsoft Word and Office versions.
Sales Rankings
NOOK
ranks books daily based on rolling six months of sales data. Sales
rankings will change as new books are added to the database. If there
are no sales during a particular amount of time, or if other titles
have more sales, a title can lose its ranking.
Sample
A
Sample is a portion of a NOOK Book that can be viewed by a customer
without making a purchase. For all NOOK Books, interested customers can
download up to 5% of a NOOK Book to their computing or mobile device
enabled with free NOOK eReading software, or view the sample in a
browser. Customers can easily purchase the full NOOK Book while viewing
a sample.
Series
If
your NOOK Book is part of a series, enter the name of the series and
the number of this NOOK Book within the series as the Series Name and
Series Number on the Other Information page. This will create links on
your NOOK Book's customer product page that connects the different NOOK
Books in your series.
Star Ratings
Customers
can submit a Star Rating based on a scale from one to five stars along
with a written Customer Review that contains their opinion of a NOOK
Book. Customers are not required to make a purchase to submit a star
rating.
Terminate
A
NOOK Press account can be Terminated at the request of the publisher,
but terminating a NOOK Press Vendor Account will not free up the Tax ID
that that was entered (SSN, EIN, or TIN) for use on a second NOOK Press
Vendor Account. Any given Tax ID can only be used on one NOOK Press
Vendor Account. If the publisher might publish a NOOK Book with
us again under the same Tax ID currently in the NOOK Press Vendor
Account, we suggest simply taking all Projects Off Sale and leaving the
NOOK Press Vendor Account Active.
Title
The
Title of a NOOK Book is entered by the NOOK Press publisher on the
Title & Description page. The Title is displayed at the top of the
customer product page.
.txt
.txt
is a commonly used file extension for a text file, which is a type of
computer file that contains electronic text, or "plain text". TXT files
do not have images or any type of text, paragraph or document
formatting.
Vendor Account
Your
NOOK Press Vendor Account is the NOOK Press page with your Contact
Information, Publisher Information, Publisher Agreement and Payment
& Tax Information. Having a NOOK Press Vendor Account allows a
publisher to publish NOOK Books with NOOK.