We've had passionate requests from a small number of bookseller users of the TitlePage Express browser extension to include stock availability within the extension, without requiring the additional click into TitlePage. This would require the browser extension to authenticate users so that this information was available to booksellers, and not other users.
A bookseller user has requested an option to exclude audiobooks, similar to the existing user detail option for excluding ebooks.
Simple automated reporting on the quality of TitlePage metadata provides measures for efforts to improve industry data, better directs support efforts, and supplies publishers with weekly reports to identify areas for attention. The initial set of measures can be built upon in the future.
TitlePage supports ONIX 3.x and legacy ONIX 2.1, but the single record download is still in ONIX 2.1. Updating this download functionality to ONIX 3.x would allow for the best data to be available to users of this function.
Request for functionality to update products via CSV, either:
A) all product fields
B) supply info (block 6)
C) a reduced set of Product fields
In recent weeks, there's been some significant usage spikes that have caused some timeouts (502 errors) as the servers scale to more instances to accomodate the demand. We're currently reviewing the server infrastructure to make any necessary changes to ensure smoother scaling.
Web service to provide price change advice to booksellers, likely a daily batch file for AU / NZ price changes, accessible via ReST call.
The reports received by Publishers for each ONIX file provided should be reviewed and improved. This should include:
It could include other improvements to assist Publishers with improving their data.
ONIX 3.1.1 allows the expression of EU-style opt-outs from the copyright exception applying to non-research uses of text and data mining (eg for training large language models) with collateral material. It has been possible to express such opt-outs on product content for some time, but revision 1 extends this to long descriptions, tables of contents, reading guides, cover images and other resources which are included in or linked from Block 2 of ONIX. The other additions enable identifiers for literary prizes, and a textual expression of the copyright statement in addition to the structured copyright owner data.
Version 3.1.1 is fully backwards compatible with the previous 3.1 release – any correctly-constructed ONIX 3.1 remains valid under 3.1.1, and most ONIX 3.0 files can be easily converted to 3.1.
The new API functionality for bookstores currently requires tokens for individual stores. This may be impractical for booksellers with many stores. New API functionality will allow booksellers with many stores to use one API to manage individual store connections.
TitlePage Express is a browser extension that brings TitlePage data directly to your internet browsing. It finds ISBNs and provides quick access to TitlePage bibliographic data and images.
Publisher endpoints (authentication required)
Bookstore endpoints (authentication required)
Linking to TitlePage is now easier than ever before, with our newly enhanced URL structure designed to seamlessly guide you to the information you need. As the primary resource for the Australian book industry, TitlePage ensures you always have direct access to the most accurate bibliographic, price, and availability data at your convenience.
Our URL structure simplifies your search and navigation. Here's how it works:
To access information about a specific book, use the ISBN-13 in the URL like this: www.titlepage.com/item/9780734421142
Alternatively, to conduct a broader search, use the search term format in the URL like this: https://titlepage.com/item/?s=SEARCH TERM
For more information see our Enhanced linking to TitlePage article
Supporting SFTP as a more secure protocol for Publisher data provision.