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.
With less than a year to go before the European Accessibility Act goes into effect in June 2025, the publishing industry has been all aflutter trying to understand the depth and breadth of this EU law which, among other things, requires that all eBooks sold within the EU be accessible to the W3C... Continue Reading
BISG is fielding a pair of surveys to understand interest in a mentorship program that would match experienced BISG members with individuals new to the publishing industry who are seeking professional development and guidance in one or more book industry segments. Continue Reading
The Book Industry Study Group is pleased to formally announce the launch of a new working group on accessibility metadata to help prepare the US book industry for compliance with the European Accessibility Act, which goes into effect on June 28, 2025. The goal of this group is not to set,... Continue Reading
A new role will grow non-dues revenue through effective creation and implementation of marketing, promotional, and sponsorship campaigns in a highly collaborative environment. Continue Reading
Making the case for standardizing fields in royalty statements. Continue Reading
In April 2024, BISG's board announced a new strategy for the organization. Executive director Brian O'Leary previews how the new approach will be implemented. Continue Reading
At its annual meeting on April 12, 2024, members of BISG elected three new members to serve two-year terms on its board of directors. These new directors will start their terms on July 1, 2024. Two current members of the board were elected for second terms. These individuals will serve terms until... Continue Reading
This has been a busy year for all of us in publishing and digital conversion, with the rapidly approaching June 28, 2025 deadline for complying with the European Accessibility Act. The Act itself is an overarching piece of EU law, which will be implemented within EU nations under individual... Continue Reading
In December 2023, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) launched a new working group to examine the impact and potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) within the book publishing industry. Since then, the AI Working Group, which reports to the Workflow Committee, has met to gather... Continue Reading
BISG’s 2024 Annual Meeting, “Everybody Wins: Rethinking How the Book Industry Communicates”, delivered a day packed with insight, direction, and hope for the book publishing community. The meeting discussed BISG strategy and initiatives in rights, supply chain, and BISAC subject codes. Continue Reading
By Andreas Stobberup of 2K/Denmark and Victor Milligan of Cairnbridge Advisers Margin expansion remains elusive in the book publishing industry—and it may get worse before it gets better. The more severe impacts of Covid have receded, hyper-inflation has eased, and most publishers have... Continue Reading
The Book Industry Study Group announced last month that the Industry Champion Award, which honors an individual whose efforts have advanced the publishing industry as a whole, will be given to Walter Mosley. Continue Reading
