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Announcement Date

Virginie Bouilhac
Updated

Definition

The Announcement Date is when your title is available for customers to preorder before your eBook's official on-sale date.
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Best Practice

Excel: The required date format is YYYY-MM-DD.
ONIX: The required date format is YYYYMMDD.

Correct Usage (example)

Info Excel ONIX 2.1  ONIX 3.0
Reference Name Announcement Date: 2018-06-01 
<AnnouncementDate>20180601</AnnouncementDate>
 
<PublishingDate>
<PublishingDateRole>09</PublishingDateRole>
<Date>20180601</Date>
</PublishingDate>
Short Tag N/A 
<b086>20180601</b086>
 
<publishingdate> 
<x448>09</x448> 
<b306>20180601</b306>
</publishingdate

Common Errors (example)

  • Excel:
    • Correct: 2010-02-16
    • Incorrect: 20100216
    • Incorrect: Jan. 16, 2010
    • Incorrect: 01-16-2010
    • Incorrect: 01/16/2010
  • If you want your book to be up for preorder, do not set the same date for announcement date and on sale date/embargo date. For your book to be up for preorder, the announcement date must be prior the on sale date.

Notes

If no announcement date is provided, the default date is the date metadata is ingested.

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