Best practices - metadata and formats
The quality of metadata and formats is essential, both to optimize the visibility and discoverability of your publications and to provide your readers with an optimal reading experience. By adopting good habits when producing your files and entering your metadata, you give your publications the best chance of reaching their audience.

The better documented a publication is, the better it ranks on reseller websites. When metadata is poorly documented, the publication may not end up in the right sections.

Below you will find the various metadata that can be documented for an audiobook.

Note that in these articles, the required metadata are identified as follows:

Required metadata


Documenting the table of contents of an audiobook is strongly recommended for two reasons:

  • to ensure more accurate navigation for the user;
  • to allow search engines to easily find and display the relevant track. 

There are other ways to document an audiobook on the platform:

Note that the importation of audiobook metadata using ONIX has some special requirements.