Metadata details for a book include basic bibliographic information. Some settings are specific to Google Books or Google Play. You can edit this information in your Partner Center account . To edit multiple books at once, you can use a spreadsheet .
The genre, title, and an identifier such as the ISBN are required, but you should complete as many fields as possible. More data helps readers discover your books.
Tips:
- Partners who use ONIX:Any changes you make in the Partner Center should also be made in your ONIX feed. The next time you send an ONIX feed, the information you provided via ONIX will overwrite your current settings.
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Metadata fields
The ISBN for this edition of the book. If your book doesn't have an ISBN, it's assigned a unique identifier by our system. You can't edit this field.
If you need to change the book identifier:
- Open the Book Catalog.
- Find and select the book that requires the book identifier change.
- From the menu on the left, select the Book Infotab.
- Click the title’s book identifier that appears above the box that has the current identifier in it.
- Click Continue.
- In the box designated for book identifier, make the edits.
- Click Save.
Tip:When you update the book identifier:
- The book will have a duplicate and the older version will be deactivated.
- Ratings and reviews won’t carry over to the new book.
The primary language of the book.
Select a list of languages or search for languages.
YYYY-MM-DD
. Important:This setting doesn't affect your ebook's preview availability on Google Books.
To change this setting:
- Sign in to the Partner Center .
- On the left, click Book Info Settings Show advanced settings.
- Under "Allow preview before release date?", click No.
If the book belongs to a series, make sure the series name has the exact same spelling and punctuation for every book in the series.
If the book belongs to a series, add the volume number of this book in the complete series.
If all volumes that exist in your account are numbered with no gaps and no number overlap, Play may create a designated page for the series. This page may be eligible for series-related promotional opportunities, like series bundles and notifications.
When a designated page for your series is created, the way Play displays your books will be optimized for the series experience.
If any changes you made to series name and series number don't update on the Play Store after 48 hours, contact us .
ISBNs for other books which are associated with this book. For example, if this book exists in both ebook and physical editions, you should provide the ISBN of the other format.
Use only one subject standard. We highly recommend Book Industry Subject and Category (BISAC) codes because genres in the Play Store are based on BISAC.
For publishers who already use another standard besides BISAC, there are other options available for your convenience. These codes are mapped to BISAC for our store.
- BISAC (North America)
- BIC (UK and Australia)
- WGSneu (Germany)
- C code (Japan)
- CLIL (France)
- UDC (Russia)
- GKSS (South Korea)
- Manga (Japan and South Korea)
After you select a subject standard, you can assign genres to a book. To choose the genre of a book, enter a keyword to find genres that match. We recommend you choose a maximum of 3 genres per book. The first genre should be the most relevant to the book. All 3 genres must be from the same standard.
