Book Business | By Bill Kasdorf, VP & Principal Consultant, Apex CoVantage
The book industry is benefiting from competitors coming together to collaborate on standards that will accelerate the pace of publishing
In the past, the publishing technology standards landscape has been pretty fragmented and siloed. The famous quip, “The great thing about standards is that there are so many of them,” is quite true.
Why is this? It’s because most standards are developed to address the needs of a specific community of interest, in a specific domain, to accomplish specific things. This is not a bad thing in itself. In fact, it’s usually a pretty good thing for those individual communities.