Abbreviation

The reduction of a word.

AA.VV.

Various authors. It is present when one is in the presence of a collection of songs by different authors.

self publishing

editorial method that ensures that the author is also the publisher of himself. Provides, that is, to lay out, print and distribute his work. Such actions can still be carried out by the publisher, but for a fee.

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Bibliography

Index in which it is collected all the texts consulted for the drafting of the work. The texts from which they are drawn useful information are generally categorized as follows: Author's Name, Title, Publisher, Registered office of the publisher and year of publication of the work, the page to which reference is made (Plato, The Republic, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1994, pp.44-45).

Barcode

Series of black strips that identify an article offered for sale, with the ability to be recognized by an optical reader.

Necklace

The set of books for a publishing house that show a continuity of a subject. Most of the time have a cover style and always the same layout.

Imprint

Set of news, almost always placed in the opening pages of the book, on the publication of the book, to the edition, the ISBN, the typography, the cover and copyright.

Press release

Article created by the publishing house with the aim of objectively informing the media about an event any. The aim is to require publication of that statement on the media and to get indirect advertising.

Copyright

exclusive right of decision on a work. If he holds the publisher, it will be the only one who can decide whether to publish the work and second that mode.

In self publishing copyright is retained by the author.

legal deposit

Every book that is published must be made available to force the Italian State; They are then sent four copies, obligatorily, the national libraries of Rome (2 copies), Naples (1 copy) and Florence (1 copy).

Traditional publishing is the publisher to judgment, but in the self publishing, many times, it is up to the author. In our case we provide us, and at our expense, sending the copies.

Caption

Sentence positioned just below a picture with the order to comment or make it more explicit.

Copyright

See royalty

editor

The clerk of the publishing house that deals to accompany the work of entering the publishing house to the press, taking care, first and foremost, for the correction of stylistic and spelling errors.

publisher

The owner of the publishing house that takes on the commitment to publish, print and distribute books.

Edition

All copies of a book printed from the same matrix, or from the same file, which does not have difference in content and paratext.

epub

e-book's default extension.

The advantage of the .epub format, Elettronic Pubblication, consists in a dynamic format, which solves the problem of the pdf when you zoom in or you open it with a mobile phone. It does not have a layout preset, but the lines are changed depending on the size of the screen: if on a smartphone, for example, one line of text can contain only five words, the epub recognizes this limit and repaginate automatically all the text. The consequence is that there are no fixed page numbers, as a file on the computer that is long sheets 50, on the netbook will be long and 80 on the mobile phone 150.

The disadvantage is not universally supported, but can be read only after reading software that you have installed. These software are free and do not require special skills (the most famous are Sigil, Adobe digital edition and Calibre, and you can download them from our website).

Another disadvantage resides in not being able to optimize the texts which have many tables and images, and in the production costs.

drafts around

The tour consists of sending proofs to the author of the digital file of his work formatted in order to obtain permission to print. If the author finds mistakes to be corrected, it shall draw them to the editor that provides to modify them and to send the file again.

ISBN

13-digit code that identifies a book and makes it marketable. The first three digits, 978, indicate the type of product, namely the book; The next two, 88, indicate the country of origin of the book, in this case Italy; The next five digits are the area code of the publisher, in this case 12345; the third and penultimate show the work of the house that you want to market; the last digit indicates a control number, obtained with a particular algorithm.

mailing List

List of e-mail addresses to which was sent the news letter. it no