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• C1 : see Front cover
• C1S : see Coated paper
• C2 : see Inside front cover
• C2S : see Coated paper
• C3 : see Inside back cover
• C4 : see Back cover
• Cable television : Television that is synchronously broadcast via cable to household receivers. Cable television is characterized by a large variety of channels carrying programming of different sorts.
• CALS : An XML markup model used for tables.
• Cameron Belt Press : A type of belt press that both prints and binds a book as part of the same process. Cameron belt presses result in inexpensive printing, but are not suitable for halftones or linescreens.
• Card deck : A packet of post card sized advertisements with a common theme that are mailed to consumers.
• Case binding : A binding style characterized by a hard cover (case) made from boards or other stiff material.
• Cash : Money in bank accounts or other readily accessible form.
• Cash flow projection : A financial projection of future cash flows as part of business planning.
• Cash flow statement : One of the three major financial statements used by businesses to monitor their operations. The cash flow statement profiles all incoming cash streams against outgoing cash streams.
• Casting : In audio and video production the function of selecting talent for performances.
• Cataloging in Publication data : The bibiographic data printed on a book's copyright page that is an abbreviated version of the MARC record created by the Library of Congress.
• Catalog marketing : A form of direct marketing in which a catalog of various items is printed and delivered to a consumer.
• CD-Audio : A CD used in audio players for music or audio books.
• CD [Rights] : The rights to publish material on CD-ROM.
• CD-ROM : A CD for data as opposed to audio.
• Cellular phone : Also called a mobile phone, a cellular phone is a wireless telephone that sends and receives calls in an area served by cellular towers.
• Censorship : Suppression of a part of a work that is deemed objectionable. Censorship is generally an issue when applied by a government or regulatory agency.
• Chain bookstore : Chain Book retailers consisting of multiple stores.
• Chapter : A grouping of content within a book that generally shares a common theme.
• Chapter body : see Chapter
• Chart : see Graph
• Chemical notation : Notation used to describe chemical reactions and relationships.
• Children's Books : Books published for use by children.
• Children's Publishing : see Childrens Trade Publishing
• Childrens Trade Publishing : That sector of publishing focused primarily on providing content for children across fiction and non-fiction categories.
• Christian Publishers : see Religious Publishing
• CIP data : see Cataloging in Publication data
• Classics : Traditionally this has been the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome. It has taken on a more expanded meaning to represent well-respected literary works of any age prior to the present.
• Cloud : The distribution of access, computing and storage of information into distributed, virtual servers to increase scalability and speed of deployment.
• CMS : see Content Management System
• Coated paper : Paper with a surface coating applied to one side (C1S) or two sides (C2S) to allow for better reproduction of halftones and other images.
• Collection agencies : Companies that aid in the collection of debts from consumers and other businesses.
• College bookstore : Bookstores associated with institutions of higher education that sell textbooks and many other types of merchandise to students.
• College Publishing : see Higher Education Publishing
• College radio : Radio stations that are run by the students of a college or university. They generally feature programming that is very different than that provided by commercial stations.
• College textbooks : Textbooks that are used in university courses that present a broad scope of material related to a particular discipline. These same textbooks can be used in honors courses or advanced placement courses in high schools.
• Colophon : Logo of a publishing firm generally printed on the title page of a book.
• Colophon [Typography] : A page in the backmatter on which details of the typography are described.
• Color illustration : An illustration that is presented in multiple colors. This is distinct from a black and white illustration or single color illustrations presented in the same color as the text.
• Comics : An illustrated medium in which the main narrative is presented in images with textual support.
• Commercial radio : Broadcasting for profit generally via on-air advertising.
• Commission : Compensation paid only in relation to the value or quantity of what was sold.
• Commission reps : Independent sales people, generally self-employed, that work on commission and will generally represent multiple publishers.
• Community radio : Nonprofit radio stations that are generally operated to serve a local interest.
• Compensation : Money paid to employees for fulfilling their daily responsibilities.
• Compensation [Function] : That function in a company that determines equitable salary ranges and guidelines for employees and oversees pay and bonus programs.
• Composition : The transformation of manuscripts to finished pages suitable for printing.
• Composition systems : Systems used to compose pages, transforming from a manuscript to final format for printing.
• Consulting : Providing advice to publishers, wholesalers or others in the publishing industry to solve particular problems of a strategic or operational nature.
• Consumer magazine [Sector] : Periodicals targeted at consumers that are party supported by subscription and partly by advertising.
• Content management : The ingestion, maintenance and (generally internal) distribution of content supporting publishing operations. This can support content development and production workflows or be targeted at content post-production.
• Content Management System : A Content Management System (CMS) is used to manage a company's digital assets for either development or distribution.
• Content Services : Those services associated with content development including conversion, editorial and production activities.
• Content Type : Forms of content that are perceived in different ways, textually, visually, aurally or in some meaningful spatial or temporal combination.
• Continuous delivery : A channel of delivery that is continuously available and in fact requires continuous connection for delivery of content. Examples would include broadcast and two-way channels such as the Internet.
• Contract : A document in which the terms and conditions of an agreement between two parties is laid out.
• Contract Management : That publishing function in which contracts, generally with authors, but also with other parties are executed and maintained.
• Contribution : see Gross margin
• Contributor :
• Contributor contracts :
• Controlled circulation magazines : Advertising supported business magazines in which the publisher guarantees to the advertisers that the subscribers are relevant to the advertisers' interests.
• Conversion : The transformation of content from an original format to a derivative format. Often this involves taking content from a previously published format in either paper, PDF or application files into XML or fielded format.
• CookBooks :
• Coop : see Cooperative Advertising
• Cooperative Advertising :
• Copying :
• Copyright :
• Copyright page : The page placed in the frontmatter of a book that contains key identifying information about the book such as ISBN, CIP data, copyright year and other data that assists in registering and categorizing a book for filing and locating later on as well as other practical functions associated with publishing, cataloguing, filing, or reading a book.
• British Copyright Act of 1710 : England's Statute of Anne (1710) is generally regarded as the first law establishing copyright. It established a public copyright system, established copyright as originating with the author, and established a term for copyright protection.
• Copy editing : Ensuring grammatical correctness and terminology consistency in a manuscript. Copy editing also generally includes fact checking.
• Copy edited manuscript :
• Copy/paste :
• Corporate :
• Corporate Library : A library associated with a corporation.
• Costs :
• Cost of Goods Sold :
• Cost Reduction : Projects to reduce the cost of operations. These projects can be applied to any function.
• Courseware : Online content provided to students consisting of learning materials and a course environmement. Generally courseware will include a syllabus, course objectives, core content (text, multimedia and interactive components), tutorial or homework conent, low-stakes assessment/quizzing, and notes and materials provided by an instructor.
• Courseware Production : Execution of multimedia and interactive components of courseware. This can be delivered as custom coding or in an LMS cartridge format.
• Course Cartridge : Courseware in a format suitable for delivery via LMS systems such as Blackboard.
• Cover :
• Cover copy :
• Cover image :
• Cover stock :
• Crash : Loose weave material used to re-inforce the spine and hinge of a book.
• Credit and collections :
• Credit memorandum :
• Cross-reference :
• Current assets :
• Current liabilities :
• Customer invoice :
• Customer order :
• Customer Service : That function that works with customers in placement of orders, handling of inquiries and resolution of issues.
• Custom Publishing : The recombination of content on-the-fly in response to a customer request. This content can be delivered either in physical format via POD or other printing technology, or in digital format.