Availability and publishing status
Availability and publishing status
To signal the bookselling trade, but also the customers, the availability of a product, you can provide status information for it. Information on availability may be provided for times before, during or after publication. The bookselling trade in particular needs to be informed whether products are not available yet or not available anymore, in order to be able to remove them temporarily or permanently from their selection of books.
Metabooks offers the following status designations
Availability
The availability status is to be specified in ProductAvailability or j396 using values from code list 65.
The information that a product is available is to be specified as follows
| ONIX 3.0 Short | <j396>20</j396> |
|---|---|
| ONIX 3.0 Reference | <ProductAvailability>20</ProductAvailability> |
Product archiving
Metabooks archives products according to their availability. The following statements of availability result in the product being archived.
| Product Availability or j396 | Availability | Metabooks status allocation |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Cancelled | deleted |
| 34 | Temporarily withdrawn from sale | inactive |
| 40 | Not available (reason unspecified) | inactive |
| 41 | Not available, replaced by new product | inactive |
| 42 | Not available, other format available | inactive |
| 43 | No longer supplied by us | inactive |
| 45 | Not sold separately | inactive |
| 46 | Withdrawn from sale | inactive |
| 48 | Not available, replaced by POD | inactive |
| 49 | Recalled | inactive |
| 50 | Not sold as set | inactive |
| 51 | Not available, publisher indicates OP | inactive |
| 52 | Not available, publisher no longer sells product in this market | inactive |
| 97 | No recent update received | inactive |
| 98 | No longer receiving updates | inactive |
| 99 | Contact supplier | inactive |
Publishing Status
The publishing status is to be specified in PublishingStatus or b394 using values from code list 64.
The publishing status is connected to the publication date. If the publication date is in the past, the product is to be reported as “published”; if the publishing date is in the future, the title is to be reported as “not yet published”. Metabooks does not automatically correct the publishing status.
That a title has been published would be shown as follows.
| ONIX 3.0 Short | <b394>04</b394> |
|---|---|
| ONIX 3.0 Reference | <PublishingStatus>04</PublishingStatus> |