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The metadata gap costing African publishers global readers

mark — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:40:00 +0000

There are good books being published across Africa right now – in English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Setswana, French, Swahili – that almost nobody outside the publisher’s home market can find. Not because they’re hard to get hold of. Because they’re invisible. When a bookseller, library, or online retailer goes looking for a title, they’re not […]

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What “valid ONIX” actually means, and why retailers won’t tell you when it’s wrong

mark — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:45:00 +0000

If you’ve ever sent an ONIX file to a retailer or distributor and heard nothing back, you probably assumed everything was fine. In most industries, no news is good news. In ONIX, silence can mean your data was quietly set aside and never used. Most platforms that receive ONIX feeds run automated validation before they […]

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ONIX XML, a Source of Truth for Book Data Management

mark — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:28:23 +0000

Here’s a scenario that will be familiar to most publishers: you update the price on a title. You fix it in your own system, send an email to your distributor, update the spreadsheet you send to retailers, and make a note to check whether the online stores have reflected the change. Three weeks later, someone […]

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