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Sales Rights

Virginie Bouilhac
Updated

Definition

Your eBook's sales rights.
--> Required field.

Best Practice

To indicate sales rights use two-letter territory codes to specify where your ebook can be sold according to the rights your company holds. <SalesRightsType> is important in indicating specific type of rights held (exclusive, non-exclusive, not for sale, etc). Please see correct usage for how to declare sales rights in ONIX.

ONIX 2.1: Please use upper-case characters and separate each territory with a space in <RightsCountry>US CA</RightsCountry>. World Rights should be indicated as <RightsTerritory>WORLD</RightsTerritory>
ONIX 3.0: Similarly, in <CountriesIncluded> please use upper-case characters and separate each territory with a space. World rights should be indicated as <RegionsIncluded>WORLD</RegionsIncluded>

Good practice in 2.1 and mandatory in 3.0, you should also list countries where the book is not for sale (sales rights type 03)

Excel: Leave this field blank if you want your by default contract sales right info to be applied. If your eBook can only be sold in a specific list of countries, you must indicate their two-letter country codes in this field with each country code separated by a comma.

Correct Usage (example)

Info Excel ONIX 2.1  ONIX 3.0
Reference Name US,CA,BR 
<SalesRights>
<SalesRightType>01</SalesRightsType>
<RightsCountry>US CA BR</RightsCountry>
</SalesRights>
 
<SalesRights>
<SalesRightsType>01</SalesRightsType>
<Territory>
<CountriesIncluded>US CA BR</CountriesIncluded>
</Territory>
</SalesRights>
<ROWSalesRightsType>03</ROWSalesRightsType>
Short Tag N/A 
<salesrights>
<b089>01</b089>
<b090>US CA BR</b090>
</salesrights>
 
<salesrights>
<b089>01</b089>
<territory>
<x449>US CA BR</x449>
</territory>
<salesrights>
<x456>03</x456>

Common Errors (example)

Excel: Australia

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