About this manual

Document Conventions

This is the IGP:Distribution Manager User Manual. This section describes who should read this guide, how the guide is organized, and other resources related to Infogrid Pacific publishing products. 

IGP:Distribution Manager may be referred to within this guide as "DM"; likewise IGP:Long Running Process Engine is referred to in this guide as "LRPE". All copyrights and legal protections still apply to the abbreviated terms.

Audience

This guide is intended for end-users who are going to use IGP:Distribution Manager and its associated and support applications and components as a business environment for distributing digital products (files) to various Distribution Channels.

Required Knowledge and Skills

This guide assumes you are familiar with the following:

• Publisher e-book formats
• E-book distribution channels which can be retailers, wholesalers, aggregators or libraries.
• Basic understanding and ability to use application Dashboards, toolbars and business tools
• The existence of ONIX and the various metadata content required for standard book distribution.

How to Use this Manual

This manual is a high-level introduction and tutorial. It is divided into major topics that allow you to both experiment with IGP:Distribution Manager, and use it in practical scenarios. 

If you work through the manual in the sequence presented, you will cover the major knowledge items to get the most out of your IGP:Distribution Manager application. Because the topics cover a very wide range of publishing terms and concepts, and may introduce publishing paradigms that are new to you, linear reading may not be the best method. 

This manual is an assembly of topics that have been authored as reusable, extensible, stand-alone Content Objects. The topics are authored in IGP:Digital Publisher from template objects. From there, the appropriate topics have been assembled using content remix features to create the final user manual you are using.

The Topics are authored as "stand-alone" semantic objects. They contain all the information you need to use them successfully, so you will not see within the instructional text any distant relationship or references to other topics.