hello and welcome back to my channel when i first joined publishing i wish there was someone
there that gave me a glossary of all the terms i needed to know because there were so many times
that someone would say something or use like an abbreviation i would be like what does that
mean and i was too embarrassed to ask and i felt like i should know it and all this so so one of
the things that i did when i first joined the publishing industry was kept like an ongoing
glossary so i did it on the computer and every time that i heard a new word i would note it down
research it or ask someone what it meant and it was honestly one of the best things i did so i'm
going to share that with you today so i've got 40 words that i want to cover so i'm going to do it
in part one and part two so part one is going to be today and then hopefully these can help
you when you're like looking at job descriptions or you've just started a new job and you're not
really sure what people are talking about and or yeah you just want to get into the industry and
you want to learn a bit more so as i said there's 40 to go through but i'll go through the first 20
today and i've done it in alphabetical order of course so number one is advances advanced payments
are given to the author before their book is published and it's essentially a lump sum of money
for their work um for allowing the publishers to actually publish their material you can find more
about advances and royalties in another video i did about how much authors actually get paid
and i'll put a link in the description below for that as well so you can watch that afterwards
number two is ai or ti so i recently did a video on this about what an advanced information sheet
is that's essentially a piece of paper about a new publication that has everything that you need to
know on it number three is arcs this stands for advanced reading copies so this is like proofs
they're sent out to reviewers or whatever and some people have sent me so many lately which
i'm so grateful for so they're advanced reading copies so it's advanced because the book hasn't
actually come out yet and they're just getting some reviews on it or they're just um like
printing like dummy copies of it number four is a pc which is an article processing charge now this
is normally for like journals and one thing i was going to mention as well is this all these words
i'm going to say is predominantly book publishing i will try and make it quite broad so it can apply
to different types of publishing as well but yeah and apcs are article processing charges
and that's like a it's like a publication fee so that's often given to authors to make their
material available or in journals or open access or whatever number five is biblio biblio is used
a lot in the publishing industry especially at the big publishing houses and it's a content
management system and it's basically got all the information that you need to know about all of
your titles at that particular publishing house it has the pub date the isbn it has the um like
who's the editor it has whether you want the books in stock has literally everything on there so it's
basically a massive system and that everyone every department will use number six is bleed so when
you say something has got a bleed it's like a bit of an extra text or images or color or something
um on a proof that shouldn't be there basically it's basically that you have the trim lines and
it's the bleed is the bits that go out of the trim lines it's essentially there to give any
leeway for any sizing issues printing issues etc so i remember people saying about bleed before and
i'd be like i'm so confused like obviously i knew they didn't mean like about actual blood but i was
yeah i think to be honest it's more common when you're looking at covers rather than text files
so me personally i tend to look at text files a lot and there's not really like any bleed on
those it's normally through the covers next one is cip data this stands for cataloging cataloging
in publication data that's usually found on the imprint page or the copyright page of a book it's
just a bit of information basically a bit of data about that book that you can and find the library
of congress or the british library the next one is cms so that stands for content management
system so for example biblio that i mentioned that different publishing houses might use so it's um
yeah it manages all your content so all of the titles that you'll be working out or the journals
that you might be working on at publishing house the next one is cmyk and if you have a printer or
yeah i mean this isn't technically industry specific because cmyk is just a printing term
so it stands for cyan magenta yellow and black or key and and it's yeah it's the four colors
that are used in printing the next one is critical path so this is really important in the publishing
process because everything in publishing has a has a key date you have to stick to and the
critical path is basically a list of all those key dates that each one of those has to be um
stuck to in order for the publication to actually be made on time the next one is extent so this is
basically the number of pages in a book but it's not necessarily the ones that you see the bottom
where it says you know it's got 250 pages because extent also includes like the front and the back
matter so that's the contents page or the imprint page or the back it might be like the indexing or
the bibliography or about the author or anything like that so the extent is the full number of
pages from the very beginning to the very end of the book the next one is gratis copies which
is also known as freeze these are literally free copies that usually like the author would get for
example when their book is published they usually have like um a write in their contract to have say
15 copies of their book the next one is house style so um sorry the publisher's house stuff
so it's basically a publisher's own guide and rules that the editors and the authors
will have to stick to in terms of like structure spelling grammar punctuation etc for example when
you talk about speech if you're using single quotation marks or double quotation marks
and if it's an american book or an english book and you're using s rather than zed for example
and so that's all to do with the publisher's house style the next one is html which stands for
hypertext markup language and this is more like an i.t data term in terms of publishing because
it's a markup language and it's used for web pages etc and it helps you with the appearance
of how something looks on online so whether it's like in bold a text whether it's got a really big
paragraph whether it's in black or if it's in white et cetera you can also see as well the
html coding if you go on literally any web page and you right click and you click inspect
and it will bring up on the right hand side like all of the html at the met the markup language
and you can see and you can actually play around with it as well and it won't it will change what
you see because it's to do with the appearance but if you were to like cross your chrome off or
whatever and go back into it it doesn't save those changes so it doesn't affect the web
page or together it affects how you're seeing it the next one is imprint so this is just a
particular list within a publisher to identify like a particular style so we have raven books for
example is one of our imprints at bloomsbury and that's like our three loud kind of crimey books
then we have like absolute press for example which is a lot of our cookery books and so an imprint it
can just be like a made-up list or but a lot of the time it's where we buy or acquire different
imprints as well the next one is indies and it sounds so obvious when you think about it it just
stands for independent bookshops and so indeed so independence and when i first started publishing
i heard this term used all the time people said about indies you know support local indies and
i kind of assumed in independent bookshops i was never really sure and i wish someone
had told me at the very beginning that i was right i guessed it right because i didn't ever
want to ask someone because it seemed almost so obvious but yeah indie stands for independent
bookshops the next one is ipr which stands for intellectual property rights which is what the
authors of a material have as soon as they make their product into a tangible or palpable material
so when it's not just in there in their head but when they actually write it down and
and it's like a physical product they then hold the ipr like the intellectual property rights
for that material the next one is isbn which is used all the time in publishing it stands for
the international standard book number and it's basically a unique code it's usually 13 numbers
long but i think you can have like the 10 isbn as well it's usually 13 numbers long and it's
basically a unique identifier for a particular title a book or any journals they have as well
so they won't necessarily use isbns but they might use like d d o is i think they call them so it's
digital object identifiers but it's all kind of the same thing it's basically a unique code given
to that particular book the next one is license deal so this is usually talked about a lot in the
rights department so it's basically licensing your material to another publisher for them to print it
like in their own um territory so production do deal with that a lot as well because they
might have to send the materials to the different publisher for example and rights will get involved
because it's a right essentially you're you're licensing the right for another publisher to
publish that material and finally number 20 on this video is list so it's essentially
like a different genre or a different section or different topics of a list so i work in bloomsbury
academic for example but we have different lists within that so we i i personally work on
the literary study lists and the philosophy lists the drama odd and shakespeare lists
and the film and media lists so they're almost like different genres about what the books are
so i've worked on the history list for example before so that will be self-explanatory it's books
about history i don't know it's almost like it's a term that seems really obvious it's just a list of
books but it's your it's your list it's your topic it's your section that you work on so that's the
2010s festival that you need to know if you want to work in publishing or you're just starting out
and you don't know what these words mean i've got another video coming really soon about the
other 20 that you should know as well i've done it in alphabetical order so i can kind of follow
it really easily and so make sure you do check out part two when it comes out thank you for watching