General Publishing Fundamentals MCQs

1. What is a 'book block'?

2. What is a 'vanity press'?

3. What is a 'wholesaler'?

4. What is 'web offset' printing?

5. What are 'returns'?

6. What are the 'verso' and 'recto' in a book?

7. What is 'search engine optimization,' a technique now used to market books online?

8. What is 'perfect binding'?

9. What does 'imposition' refer to?

10. What defines a book's 'format'?

11. What is the 'folio'?

12. What is 'QuarkXPress'?

13. What are 'topping rights'?

14. What is an 'advance'?

15. What does 'bulk' refer to?

16. What is the difference between 'offset printing' and 'print-on-demand'?

17. What are 'prelims'?

18. What does 'RRP' stand for?

19. What is 'endpaper'?

20. What is 'half-tone'?

21. What is a 'book proof' and how is it used in sales?

22. What is a 'blad'?

23. What are 'permissions'?

24. What does it mean when a book is 'cased'?

25. What is the difference between an appendix and a bibliography?

26. What is a 'book packager'?

27. Which of these cities have important book fairs every year for the publishing industry?

28. What are book 'bar codes'?

29. What is a 'scout' and how does he or she work?

30. What is an 'ozalid'?

31. What is a 'blurb'?

32. What does it mean when a page is said to 'bleed'?

33. Which of the following best describes an 'auction' in a publishing house?

34. What does 'EPOS' stand for and what does it mean?

35. What does a 'leaf' refer to?

36. Choose the best description of the job of a 'proofreader' from the list below.

37. What is a 'typeface'?

38. What is the Net Book Agreement (NBA)?

39. What does 'ISBN' stand for and what does it mean?

40. What is an 'imprint'?

41. What is the 'Dewey Decimal System'?

42. What does 'colophon' mean?

43. What does 'point of sale' mean?

44. What is a 'C format' book?

45. What does the industry-wide abbreviation 'OP' mean?

46. What does the 'furnish' of a book refer to?

47. What does 'CRC' stand for, and how is it used?

48. What are 'dues' (UK) or 'back orders' (US)?

49. What is the difference between an adaptation and a novelization?

50. In academic publishing, what is 'peer review'?

51. Who is the commissioning editor, also known as the acquiring editor?

52. What does 'NYP' stand for?

53. What is 'woodfree' paper?

54. What is the 'half-title'?

55. What does 'ISSN' stand for and what does it mean?

56. Choose the best definition of 'desktop publishing' from the list below.

57. What is a presentation stand, usually containing some 20-40 copies of a book, used for point of sale merchandising in bookstores called?

58. What is a 'bookjacket' or 'dustjacket'?

59. What is a 'firm sale'?

60. What is the name given to an illustration that faces the title page?