出版业对通过网络传输数据已经达成了认同,认为它是新世纪里出版业的一大趋势,接下来要做的就是建立一个标准来实践这项工作。批发商、零售商以及在这条供应链上各个环节的经营者正朝着一个目标前进,即能够接受以ONIX国际格式传输的电子文件,ONIX是Online InformationExchange(在线信息交换)的缩写。许多出版商迫不及待地询问,它的进展情况如何?什么时候可以用它来传输数据? 一年前, ONIX以首先是作为美国出版商协会的一个项目进行开发研究的,后来与出版工业研究集团通力合作,最后在为书刊信息数据库提供传输格式的喧闹声中结束了。由于网络售书和网络出版市场的不断扩大,对精确 The publishing industry has agreed on the transmission of data over the Internet as a major trend in the publishing industry in the new century, and the next step is to establish a standard to do that. Wholesalers, retailers and operators in all aspects of the supply chain are moving toward the goal of being able to accept electronic files transmitted in the ONIX international format, ONIX being an acronym for Online Information Exchange. Many publishers can not wait to ask how well it is going and when it can be used to transmit data. A year ago ONIX was first developed as a project of the American Publishers Association and later co-published with the Industrial Research Group The collaboration culminated in the noisy sounding of the transmission format for the book information database. As the network book sales and online publishing market continues to expand, to the precise