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The Book Industry Study Group regularly releases new and updated guidelines for industry best practices in areas that address metadata, rights, subject codes, supply chain, and workflow issues. Our posts address these and other issues across five topic categories.

Pivoting To Video: Lessons Learned

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Pivoting To Video: Lessons Learned

Just as the book industry experienced a massive upheaval with ebooks, the entertainment industry experienced a similar disruption with the advent of streaming. HBO’s foray into that technology began in 2014, with the introduction of HBONow on Apple TV. Continue Reading

by Laura Dawson

10/14/2019

Outsource Your Distribution? Six Questions To Help You Decide

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Outsource Your Distribution? Six Questions To Help You Decide

The publishing community faces an increasingly current complex landscape. These developments require that publishers take a broader view of the opportunities and risks in the current economic environment and the limits on resources. Continue Reading

by David Hetherington

10/10/2019