Improving Individual Book Publishing Concepts With XML Schema

The traditional way of publishing books is a one-dimensional procedure. An author creates content, believing that somebody may be interested in it. A publisher invests money in his book project, financing the production, the marketing and the distribution to the bookstores. The readers select the books in the bookstore under a wide range of decision criteria’s. At the end of the chain, the public libraries save the book, storing the information as cultural heritage. Since years with the growing of digital printing technology, Internet and data based publishing also a new type of book production is in the discussions: Book-on-Demand (BoD). Especially suppliers of the new enabling technologies promote this new type of book.