Clearly there is a lot more discussion about ebook covers
than ebook metadata.
Not exact matches
Toby, make your
eBook metadata accurate, make it easy to understand, and make it more catchy
than confusing.
While
metadata is not a new concept — basically, a library card catalog is
metadata — the usefulness of it may never have been more poignant
than in a digital market with millions of
ebook files to search through.
Although, it is unclear how that will work at this stage, because separate
metadata entered when the
eBook is uploaded to the various
eBook stores seems to affect the algorithms rather
than the
metadata actually inside the EPUB package.
One convenient feature of the EPUB specification is that it allows the
metadata to be embedded within the
eBook itself rather
than relying on an external database.
Therefore, when publishing at the different
eBook vendors, the
metadata that gets entered separately during the upload process is usually more important
than anything that is embedded in the
eBook package.
Online (and
ebook)
metadata displayed to customers and readers requires older HTML formatting «tags»
than currently used in websites.
Firebrand is proud to offer
metadata and content distribution for print books,
eBooks, and audio books to more
than 500 trading partners around the world through our Eloquence on Demand service.
At this point, you already know much more about
ebook metadata than you ever intended to.
I use Txtr more
than Bluefire as there are 2 main issues that still prevent me from using only Bluefire — lack of
metadata editing and the limited number of
eBooks that can be retained within the app due to memory issues.