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Sales and Inventory Reporting

Sales Reporting

The EDItX Sales Report format is intended to be used by a retailer, distributor or other intermediary, or by an agent reporting on their behalf, to report sales to a publisher or content owner.

Such sales reports are the basis on which payments are made to the publisher, either by the seller or, if the seller is a branch of a larger organization that purchases centrally, by the central "buyer".

The format was originally developed for use in the ebook supply chain in North America, but minor adaptations have made it suitable for use internationally in both digital and non-digital book product supply chains.This EDItX format allows ebook sales reports to be sent from distributors or other vendors to the publisher or content owner as standard XML messages, to be used as the basis for payments to the publisher.

Inventory Reporting

The EDItX Inventory Report format is intended to be used by a retailer, distributor or other intermediary managing inventory (on consignment or otherwise) on behalf of the publisher or content owner, or by an agent reporting on their behalf, to report inventory levels to the publisher.

Inventory reports may be used to report inventory levels and movements in those markets where various forms of inventory management are practised.

The format has been derived from the existing EDItX Sales Report format. It is intended that the format be implemented in digital (on a physical carrier such as a CD, or ‘online’ if the seller has been allocated a finite number of licenses to sell), non-digital or mixed book product supply chains, depending upon local market requirements.

Outline Specifications

XML Schemas

For these particular transactions, the code lists are included in the XML schema file, and no separate code list file is required.

The original Digital Sales Report from 2003 remains available, below, until such time as we can establish that it is not being used.

Outline Specification