Gaining Approval for Two of Today’s Most Contentious Issues
 

"...At BISG’s annual meeting, Executive Director Jeff Abraham demonstrated that getting all segments of this industry — much given to internal squabbling — on the same page is not impossible. In the presence of representatives from the ABA, AAP, AAUP, PMA, Ingram, B&T, B&N, BGI, Levy, Amazon and any number of printers, publishers and other acronyms (i.e., pretty much the entire industry),  he sought and gained approval for two of today’s most contentious issues: a US industry wide adoption of the Bookland EAN bar code by January 2007 (ultimately discarding the less than efficient or sufficient UPC code), and the conversion of ISBNs to 13 digits. And during the same two years that he’s been on the job, he’s increased BISG’s membership by over 50%....”

--Constance B. Sayre

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