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• Academic Library : A library associated with an institution of Higher Education supporting post-graduate studies.
• Academic Publishing : That sector of publishing focused on publishing material, generally monographs, of interest to academics. This sector is primarly, though not exclusively, the domain of University Presses.
• Accounts Payable [Function] :
• Accounts payable [Liability] :
• Accounts Receivable [Asset] :
• Accounts Receivable [Function] : The management of invoices that have been cut, but for which the cash has not yet been received.AR consists of a number of activities including collections, cash application, credit and debit reconciliation.
• Accumulated depreciation :
• Acquisition : Identification of a concept or manuscript suitable for publication through completed contract with authors or sources. "Acquisition" in this context generally refers to acquiring the rights to publish the material.
• Adhesive Binding :
• Adoption process :
• Adult Trade : That sector of publishing focused primarily on providing content for adult consumers across fiction and non-fiction categories.
• Advanced Placement :
• Advance Dating :
• Advance orders :
• Advance reader copy :
• Advance Shipping Notice :
• Advertising :
• Advertising Model :
• Agent : see Literary Agent
• Allocations :
• Alternative Publishing Configurations : Alternative ways of organizing the key functions of a publishing enterprise.
• Amortization :
• Analytics : The organization and use of large amounts of structured and unstructured data to improve business performance.
• Anchor : The location in the text to which a note refers, generally indicated in print by a symbol or number in a superscript. In HTML an anchor is generally indicated by an underline or blue text color and signifies the starting point of a link.
• Animation : Media in which the illution of motion is produced by the rapid sequential display of images.
• ANSI X12 : A set of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). They are now known as ASC X12.
• Anthology : A collection of stories, usually on a common theme.
• Application [Platform] : The software used on a computer or other platform to perform a particular function.
• Architecture : That enterprise technology function that specifies the standards for enterprise systems including operating systems, hardware, databases and information structures.
• Art & Design [Function] : The determination of the layout and typography of both the interior and cover of a book.
• Art program : The collection of images that will be used in a particular title. The art program will often be found as a list or series of images at the back of a manuscript.
• Art Rendering : The transformation of rough sketches or image specifications into art that is production ready.
• Assessment : Evaluation of a student's competence in a body of material. Assessment ranges from low-stakes assessment such as self-tests all the way up to high-stakes assessment in which the student is graded.
• Assets : The balance sheet value of everything a company owns or is due to it. For publishers the primary assets are receivables, inventory and royalty advances.
• Asset improvement : Projects to improve the efficiency of corporate assets. These would include advances, inventory and accounts receivable and be reflected in a reduction in the balance sheet assets to support a given level of sales.
• Auction : A process by which a literary agent or manager solicits bids from publishers for publishing rights to a property.
• Audiovisual materials : see Multimedia
• Audio cassette : The primary audio recording and distribution format prior to the compact disk. An audio cassette contains two small reels of magnetic tape enclosed inside a plastic shell.
• Audio content : Content that is consumed aurally, by listening to it.
• Audio Production : The publishing functions used to produce audio books and spoken materials.
• Audio [Rights] : The rights to publish books and content in audio formats.
• Author : The writer of a book or other literary work.
• Author biography : The biographical sketch of the author of a work that is generally contained somewhere on the book jacket or cover, or web site devoted to the title.
• Author contract : The contract between an author and a publisher that lays out the conditions under which a work will be published.
• Author image : The photograph of the author of a work that is generally contained somewhere on the book jacket or cover, or web site devoted to the title.
• Author name : The name of the author of a work contained in the book metadata and printed on cover, spine, title page, copyright page and in other places throughout a book and other media.
• Autobiography : A biography that is written by the subject of the work.
• Awards :