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• Salary :
• Salary-related costs :
• Sales : see Revenue
• Sales Channel : From a publisher's perspective, the route through which content moves to the ultimate consumer. The channel is generally named for the location in which the first sale is made.
• Sales Conference :
• Sales Force :
• Sales [Function] :
• Sales Letters :
• Samples :
• Satellite television :
• scheduling :
• Scholarly Publishing : see Academic Publishing
• School : An institution for pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, primary or secondary education.
• School library : A library associated with a primary or secondary school.
• Scoring :
• Script Writing :
• Secondary Publishing :
• Secondary School :
• Secondary textbooks :
• Second serial [Rights] :
• Section : A grouping of content below the chapter level.
• Self-improvement :
• Self-Mailers :
• Self-Publishing :
• Selling, General & Administrative :
• Serial Rights :
• Service providers :
• Severance :
• Sewn binding :
• SG&A : see Selling, General & Administrative
• Sheet music :
• Sheet music publishing :
• Shipping :
• Short discount :
• Sidebar : Out of line notes that runs along the side of a page encroaching into the text box that offer additional information to the body text.
• Side-sewn :
• Signature :
• Simulation :
• Single Title Order Plan :
• Student Information Systems : Student Information Systems are used by educational institutions to capture information on enrolled student including their personal information, academic records, and demographics
• Sitcom :
• Slugging : Comparing the first and last word on each page to ensure that no content has been dropped during composition.
• Small presses :
• Smartphones :
• Smyth-sewn :
• Social : Technology and applications used to promote collaboration across groups of individuals.
• Soft cover : see Paperback
• Soft Proofing : Proofreading using an electronic copy of the pages. Soft proofing can save considerable time and cost by avoiding the printing and shipping of proofs.
• Sound effects :
• Specialized notation :
• Specialty retail : Business entities that sell items other than books primarily to consumers.
• Special Orders :
• Special Sales :
• Spine :
• Spiral Binding :
• Split Test :
• Spread :
• SRCs : see Salary-related costs
• Standardization :
• Standards : Standards used in the publishing industry and organizations responsible for their development and maintenance.
• Standing Orders :
• State Government :
• Statutory Reporting :
• STM Publishing : (S)cientific, (T)echnical, and (M)edical publishing actually consists of Science, Computing, Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Medicine and Healthcare publishing.
• Stock status change :
• STOP : see Single Title Order Plan
• Strategic relationship agreements :
• Strategy [Function] : That function of publishing that determines positioning of the publishing concern relative to the market, customers and competitors and ensures correct allocation of resources to achieve the business objectives.
• Streamed audio :
• Streamed video :
• Streaming media :
• Student edition :
• Subsidiary Rights [Function] :
• Subscription Model :
• Subsidiary rights contracts :
• Subsidiary Rights [Rights] :
• Subsidiary Rights Sales :
• Summative assessment : Summative assessment is a test given at the end of a term, chapter, semester, etc. to evaluate the knowledge of the student. High-stakes tests such as ACT, GRE, SAT, and the WASL are also summative assessments.
• Superhero :
• Supplemental Publishing :
• Supplier invoice :
• Supplier Selection :
• Support organizations : Organizations that aren't part of the industry value chain, but that provide support of various types to members of the value chain.
• Symbian :
• Systems Integration : Systems design and integration services.