by Joel Friedlander | Jun 21, 2011 | Marketing, Self-Publishing
Metadata—even the word sounds hard to understand. meta comes from the Greek, and means “above” or “enclosing” Metadata is simply data about data. In other words, metadata is information about your data. You can think of data as being an...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 22, 2011 | Editorial, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing, Writing
In the beginning was the word, and the words are what make the book. But soon thereafter, came the metadata—that is, data about the data. When you publish a new book, you have a chance to assign metadata to your book that will travel with descriptions of the...
