Publishing Standards Brief
The Publishing Standards Brief - Edition 005: 2027 Publisher Readiness
October 31 edition covering ISBNs, DOI fee planning, metadata quality, accessibility, print production, and rights.
Publishing
The Publishers' Guide: What Every Publisher Should Review Before 2027
An October 31, 2026 audit of ISBNs, Crossref DOI fees, metadata, accessibility, AI policy, print production, and rights records.
Publishing Standards Brief
The Publishing Standards Brief - Edition 004: AI Review and EPUB Production
Edition 004 connects the Authors Guild AI guidance and EPUB 3.4 with practical manuscript review, disclosure, validation, and rights-record workflows.
AI & Publishing
Authors Guild AI Best Practices: A Guide for Publishers
Implement the Authors Guild’s October 2026 AI guidance with manuscript screening, author consent, confidentiality controls, a sample policy, and a review checklist.
Distribution & Metadata
EPUB 3.4: What Publishers Should Change, Validate, and Leave Alone
Understand the EPUB 3.4 draft, test new features, validate with EPUBCheck 5.4.0, and decide what to change or preserve in existing ebooks.
Publishing Standards Brief
The Publishing Standards Brief - Issue 003: Four Records for October 2026
Issue 003 covers Google Search profiles, Anthropic rightsholder allocations, KDP 18-month preorders, and EPUB Annotations 1.0 with four practical publisher records.
Distribution & Metadata
EPUB Annotations 1.0: What Publishers Should Prepare for Now
W3C published a new EPUB Annotations 1.0 Working Draft on September 24, 2026. Publishers should preserve stable structure, identifiers, privacy expectations, and edition relationships before annotations become portable across reading systems.
Author & Publisher Business
KDP Preorders Can Now Run 18 Months: The Publisher Release-Calendar Standard
KDP now allows Kindle eBook preorders up to 18 months in advance for preorders created on or after September 2, 2026. Use a release-control record to avoid long-range metadata and production errors.
Copyright & Rights
Anthropic Settlement Claims: The Publisher Rightsholder Allocation Standard
Anthropic settlement allocation disputes show why publishers need a title-level record for legal owners, beneficial owners, reversions, contracts, claim percentages, and payment decisions.
Distribution & Metadata
Google Search Profiles for Publishers: The Multi-Brand Claiming Standard
Google expanded Search profiles to more U.S. publishers and added multi-account management. Use this claiming, evidence, and governance standard before rolling it across a publishing network.
Publishing Standards Brief
The Publishing Standards Brief - Issue 002: The Four Records Every Modern Publisher Needs
The September 19 Publishing Standards Brief covers Google AI Search controls, AI-era rights provenance, AI disclosure, and EPUB Accessibility 1.2.
Distribution & Metadata
EPUB Accessibility 1.2: The Publisher Release Checklist
W3C issued a September 2026 draft of EPUB Accessibility 1.2. Use this release gate for content, conformance, metadata, evaluation, and reader support.