cover image: ONIX for Books Product Information Message

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ONIX for Books Product Information Message

13 Mar 2021

A block update Product record in the ONIX message can consist of an informally-named ‘block zero’ – which contains data about the source of information in the record plus the product identifier(s) – plus any selection of the other six blocks. [...] Block updates were added to the ONIX 3.0 Specification in order to reduce the size of ONIX files, and reduce the amount of redundant data processing by recipients where most of the data in the supplied Product record is unchanged. [...] The effect of this block update should be that the bibliographic, marketing, and price information held by the ONIX recipient (which was received in previous ONIX messages) is retained, unchanged, and the additional ISBN (which was not in the previous ONIX) is added to the recipient’s database. [...] In this case, the update is limited to the US Price status and Price amount – which might previously have been a provisional $10.95 and is updated in this message to a firm price of $9.95: 4 ONIX 2.1 specified a special abbreviated variation of the message for the same purpose (the ONIX 2.1 Supply Update message). [...] In a real price and availability block update, the whole of Block 6 must be supplied – including full market detail and multiple prices (if there are multiple prices across different territories within the market).6 If you fail to include the rest of the unchanged data, it’s a signal that the recipient should delete that old metadata.
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United Kingdom