bnc webinar: sales rights & territory in onix - tom richardson
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Sales Rights and Territory in ONIXPart 2 EDItEUR’s Perspective
Based on two posts made by Graham Bell to the ONIX_IMPLEMENT email list early September 2016
September 14, 2016
Typical problems EDItEUR is aware of:
• Publisher systems that track product sales rights aren’t integrated with systems producing ONIX
• ONIX 2.1 feeds have been inconsistently supported in describing sales rights, markets, suppliers
Describing Territory in ONIX 3.0Territory statements build clearly defined areas by positive lists of countries or regions. For example:
<Territory> <CountriesIncluded>CA MX US</CountriesIncluded></Territory>
defines a geographical area covering the three North American countries added together.
You can also include parts of countries
<Territory> <CountriesIncluded>US MX</CountriesIncluded> <RegionsIncluded>CA-NB CA-NL CA-NS CA-PE</RegionsIncluded></Territory>
• Defines all of Mexico and USA, plus the four Atlantic provinces of Canada.
• No double booking. You can’t “include” a Country and “include” its sub-regions in the same territory statement. Including US and including US-AK (Alaska) makes no sense.
You can define a geographical area through subtraction<Territory> <CountriesIncluded>CA US MX</CountriesIncluded> <RegionsExcluded>CA-QC</RegionsExcluded></Territory>
• Defines Canada, USA and Mexico minus the Canadian sub-region (province) of Québec.
• Subtract a subset to define a clear positive area.You can’t “exclude” something that hasn’t been “included” in the composite.Excluding region code CN-53 (Yunnan, a province of China) makes no sense in this composite
You can start with WORLD<Territory> <RegionsIncluded>WORLD</RegionsIncluded> <CountriesExcluded>CA MX US</CountriesExcluded></Territory>
Everywhere outside of North America
<Territory> <RegionsIncluded>WORLD</RegionsIncluded> <CountriesExcluded>FR</CountriesExcluded> <RegionsExcluded>CA-QC CN-53</CountriesExcluded></Territory>
Everywhere except the country of France and the provinces of Québec (Canada)and Yunnan (China).
Within the <Territory> compositeThere are four possible country and region tags
<CountriesIncluded><RegionsIncluded><CountriesExcluded><RegionsExcluded>
Order of the XML tags matters• Inclusions always come before exclusions
(It’s always a clear, positive statement of an area)
• Countries come before regions (Regions Included=WORLD would always start a list
because you can’t add countries to the WORLD)
Only certain combinations make sense
within a single Territory CompositeYou always start with something…Either of the “included” tags can exist on their own• Countries Included (CI) on its own• Regions Included (RI) on its ownStarting from Regions Included=WORLD (cannot be combined with CI)• RI with Countries Excluded • RI with Regions Excluded • RI with CX and RX (RX cannot be a sub-region of a named CX)
Starting from Countries Included• CI with Regions Excluded (the RX must be a sub-region of a named CI)• CI with Regions Included (RI cannot be WORLD or a sub-region of a
named CI)• CI with RI and RX (The same rules apply to RI and RX as above)
Complimentary Territory Statements<Territory> <CountriesIncluded>BE BF BI BJ CD CF CG CI CM DJ DZ FR GN HT KM LU MC MG ML NE TD</CountriesIncluded> <RegionsIncluded>CA-NB CA-QC</RegionsIncluded></Territory>
Francophone markets
<Territory> <RegionsIncluded>WORLD</RegionsIncluded> <CountriesExcluded>BE BF BI BJ CD CF CG CI CM DJ DZ FR GN HT KM LU MC MG ML NE TD</CountriesExcluded> <RegionsExcluded>CA-NB CA-QC</RegionsExcluded></Territory>
Everywhere but Francophone markets
What are Sales Rights in ONIX?It’s not the ‘Publishing Rights,’ defined loosely as the rights publishers obtain from an author against their work.Sales Rights in ONIX• are the rights publishers pass to their
distributors, wholesalers and retailers• are where the publisher chooses to make the
product available – that portion of their publishing rights that a publisher chooses to exercise
• apply to the specific product defined in the record
Sales Rights are a subset (sometimes the same) as the Publishing Rights.
Describing Sales Rights in ONIX 3.0<SalesRights>
<SalesRightsType>03</SalesRightsType><Territory> <CountriesIncluded>CA MX
US</CountriesIncluded></Territory>
</SalesRights>
This rights statement means the product is not for sale (Sales Rights Type 03)in North America (CA, MX, US)
A Sales Rights composite means what it says
<SalesRights><SalesRightsType>03</SalesRightsType><Territory> <CountriesIncluded>CA MX US</CountriesIncluded></Territory>
</SalesRights>
Not for Sale codes imply nothing about where the product IS for sale.For Sale codes imply nothing about where theproduct IS NOT for sale.You tell them more in a second and likely complimentary statement.
<SalesRights> <SalesRightsType>01</SalesRightsType> <Territory> <RegionsIncluded>WORLD</RegionsIncluded> <CountriesExcluded>CA MX US</CountriesExcluded> </Territory></SalesRights><SalesRights> <SalesRightsType>03</SalesRightsType> <Territory> <CountriesIncluded>CA MX US</CountriesIncluded> </Territory></SalesRights>
For sale everywhere except North AmericaNot for sale in North America
A Sales Rights statement includes all the information
but it’s typical to start with where it is For Sale
and complete the statement with where it is Not for Sale.
The order of Sales Rights composites does not matter
01 Product is for sale, based on the publisher holding exclusive publishing rights02 Product is for sale, based on the publisher holding only non-exclusive publishing rights03 Product is not for sale (for any reason)
04 Product is not for sale (the publisher holds exclusive publishing rights, but has chosen not to exercise them)
05 Product is not for sale (the publisher holds non-exclusive publishing rights, but has chosen not to exercise them)
06 Product is not for sale (because the publisher does not hold the relevant publishing rights at all)
There are six options for <SalesRightsType>
<SalesRights> <SalesRightsType>01</SalesRightsType> <Territory> <CountriesIncluded>CA MX US</CountriesIncluded> </Territory></SalesRights>
<ROWSalesRightsType>03</<ROWSalesRightsType>
<ROWSalesRightsType>
Is the WORLD region included in a sales rights composite?
if no, <ROWSalesRightsType> is always required, even if you believe you have exhaustively listed all the ISO country codes separately. It will act as a fallback if you have inadvertently omitted a country, or if a new country code is added to the ISO list;
if yes, see Step two;
Using <ROWSalesRightsType>Step one
Are there any <CountriesExcluded> or <RegionsExcluded> elements?
if no, <ROWSalesRightsType> must be omitted;
if yes, see Step three;
How to use <ROWSalesRightsType>Step twoWithin a <SalesRights> statement that includes WORLD
Are all those excluded countries and regions included in other <SalesRights> composites?
if no, <ROWSalesRightsType> is required. It may be used to specify the rights that apply in the remaining countries or regions that you left out;
if yes, <ROWSalesRightsType> must be omitted.
How to use <ROWSalesRightsType>Step threeWithin a <SalesRights> statement that includes WORLD
<SalesRights> <SalesRightsType>01</SalesRightsType> <Territory> <CountriesIncluded>CA MX US</CountriesIncluded> </Territory></SalesRights>
<ROWSalesRightsType>00</<ROWSalesRightsType>
“Anywhere I haven’t specified I am not supplying sales rights information.” The likely use case: The sender doesn’t know.
It’s a special case – one that data recipients should treat as a ‘not for sale’ code.
<ROWSalesRightsType>Sales Rights Type Code 00
References• EDItEUR: Implementation and Best Practice
Guidehttp://www.editeur.org/files/ONIX%203/ONIX_for_Books_Release3-0_html_Best_Practice+codes_Issue_34_v1-3-1.zip
• BISG/BNC: Best Practices for Product Metadatahttps://bisg.site-ym.com/store/ViewProduct.aspx?id=6972807
• BNC Blog post: ONIX 2.1 to 3.0: Sales Rightshttp://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2015/8/17/onix-21-to-30-sales-rights
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