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Google Play Books
Google Play Books, formerly Google Ebooks, is the ebook distribution platform of Google.
OCLC WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog, a cooperative database created and maintained by tens of thousands of libraries globally. It contains a comprehensive list of library collections, including not just books but also digital media, historic documents, and unique items. It can be searched by the general public on WorldCat.org to find out what libraries hold specific items and where to find them.
As part of Thoth Plus dissemination services, Thoth will act on behalf of publishers to provide an automated way of submitting book metadata records to OCLC Knowledgebase into the Thoth Open Metadata Collection.
ONIX 3.0 Submission specifications
- File transfer: online interface
- Cover file: JPEG (150dpi)
- Content files: EPUB
- Metadata format: manually filling the online form
- Other accepted metadata formats: Batch upload in CSV
The catalog of Google Books can be searched by publisher via their Advanced Search.
Analytics and reports can be accessed by logging into the Google Play Books Partner Centre.
You can find several reports about your sales, transactions, and traffic:
- Google Play Earnings Reports: Information about your monthly earnings with Google Play.
- Sales summary reports: Net sales grouped by book and country.
- Sales transactions reports: Details for each transaction.
- Google Books preview traffic reports: Page views and visits on Google Books.
You can also find insights about your account, sales, and earnings. How to review analytics in the Partner Centre.
The Thoth Wiki has been developed in the context of the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project. Individual contributions to the wiki have been made by Tim Elfenbein, Joanne Fitzpatrick, Rupert Gatti, Ross Higman, Hannah Hillen, Brendan O'Connell, Tobias Steiner, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei under the general editorship of Van Gerven Oei. All data are available under a CC-BY 4.0 license.