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GLOSSARY OF

ACADEMIC PUBLISHING TERMS


Basics

Preliminary pages (also ‘Prelims’) – pages at the start of the book numbered in Roman figures (often includes title
page, copyright page, contents page, acknowledgements and preface).
Acknowledgements – personal thanks and formal acknowledgements for permission to reproduce copyright material,
placed in the preliminary pages.
Copyright – legal right created by the law of a country; it grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to the
work’s use and distribution, usually for a limited time.
Permissions – process of getting approval from a copyright holder for the use of third party material for reproduction
in a publication.

Stages of your work

Manuscript – text submitted to the publisher by the author in draft or final form (often abbreviated to ‘ms’). Typescript
may be used interchangeably.
Peer review – process of vetting the quality of the scholarship through a read by a specialist in the subject area.
Copy-editing – detailed work on a typescript to ensure accuracy in spelling, grammar, punctuation, word usage
and citation style.
Proof – document produced by the typesetter to show pages in their final form. This is your chance to check the
accuracy and layout of the typesetting and to finalise your index.
Advance copies – printed books received before the publication date.
Review copy – copies of the book sent to relevant media for use in preparing a review/analysis of the publication.
Print run – number of books to be printed from one order.
Reprint – additional print run of a book after the initial printing, with no changes.
POD (Print on Demand) / MOD (Manufacture on Demand) – technology that allows single copies of a book to be
printed economically, after an order has been received.

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Marketing materials

AN (Advance Notice) – information about your book that is circulated to key customers six to eight months ahead
of publication.
NBL (New Books List) – produced quarterly; a catalogue of all new paperbacks, Palgrave Handbooks, and Palgrave
Pivot titles that we will be publishing in the forthcoming quarter.

Marketing terms

Backlist – term used to describe books that are more than one year old.
Frontlist – books in their first year of publication.
Forward programme – books not yet published but forthcoming.

Formats and publishing options

Edited collection/contributed volume – work where individual chapters are authored separately, and brought
together by an editor.
Monograph – a work on a single specialist subject.
Palgrave Pivot – publishing format at lengths of between 25,000 and 50,000 words, longer than a journal article but
shorter than a monograph.
Palgrave Open – we offer the option to publish open access (OA) research across a variety of formats.
Series – set of books on a similar theme, which are formally grouped. The series will often have a series editor in charge
of commissioning new books for the series and supporting their development.
Textbook – book likely to be used as recommended reading on university courses.
Trade – publishing for the general market, rather than specifically academic, scholarly or professional readers.
Handbook – original survey of the state of a discipline, comprising at least 400 pages of original chapters of 25
contributors or more and intended as a reference work.
FTIP – first time in paperback.
Dual/SIM – simultaneous hardback and paperback publication.

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File types

EPS (.eps) Encapsulated Postscript – file format used to transfer PostScript image information from one programme to another.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) – method by which large electronic files can be sent from one destination to another very swiftly.
JPEG (.jpg)/Joint Photographic Experts Group – easily compressed format for graphics files.
PDF (Portable Document Format) – software that reduces the file size in order to make documents more easily transportable.
TIFF (.tif)/Tag Image File Format – file format for the storage of bit-map graphics and scanned images. Useful for
images where quality is important.

Technical information

Artwork – term used to describe the illustrative matter in your book, from basic charts to freehand drawings and photos.
Binding – process of fastening printed sheets together and securing them in either a cover for paperback or a case for hardback.
Blurb – brief description of your book. This term can be used to refer to the text that appears on the back (also known
as ‘back cover copy’) or on the inside cover of a book. It can also refer to other short publicity material, e.g. catalogue
blurb, leaflet blurb, marketing blurb.
Cover copy – text on the jacket of your book (used to refer to both text on the front and back).
Copy – any text used throughout the book or text used on promotional material.
Extent – number of pages in a book.
Font – a typeface.
Format – the size and layout of a book. The most common formats are Demy Octavo (216 x 138), Royal (234 x 156),
and Crown Quarto (246 x 189).
Half-tone – photograph or image.
ISBN (International Standard Book Number) – 13-digit number unique to every publication and which is used to
identify the book.
Justified text – text spaced to reach margin on both sides.
Typesetting – applying specified fonts and page designs to the copyedited typescript, in order to produce a set of
proofs illustrating the final size and style of the published book.
PostScript – page description and programming language; electronically describes the typesetting.
Proofreading – reading a proof copy of a text to detect any errors (undertaken separately after the final typescript has
been copyedited and typeset).
Publishing services – term used to describe the services supplied by the Palgrave Macmillan production department:
copy-editing, typesetting, printing, etc.
Ragged edge/ragged right – text justified to the left hand side with varying line lengths on the right.
Typography – the style of letters; often used when discussing the font or ‘typeface’ on the jacket.

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