"The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) looked energetic and focused at its annual meeting in New York last week. That was not always the case. There's nothing like life-changing challenges to concentrate collective minds on the role an industry-wide organisation can play.

In the past year, BISG added 32 members and expanded the board; the executive leadership now includes Safari chief Andrew Savikas and Wiley sales vice-president George Stanley. Hachette c.o.o. Ken Michaels has just taken over as board chair, having co-chaired with indefatigable Sourcebooks founder Dominique Raccah. One of the most high-profile accomplishments of Raccah's tenure is the BookStats project -- at long last, instead of individually producing data that often conflicted, BISG and the Association of American Publishers are working together to produce data that is useful..."

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