Meet BISG's Committee Chairs
For the first time, all five BISG standing committees are chaired by women. Continue Reading
by Brian F. O'Leary
03/14/2021
News
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.
BISG Recognizes Four Committee Efforts
Since 2017, BISG has recognized committee work with four service awards that link our core objectives with the work done by committee members. Continue Reading
by Brian F. O'Leary
01/24/2021
Celebrating BISG's Committee Members
Committee work isn't glamorous, and it remains the most important tool we have to explore problems that often look different to various parts of the supply chain. Through dialogue and debate, we work to find common understandings. Continue Reading
by Brian F. O'Leary
01/10/2021
Creating Demand at Scale: Audience Development Delivers Publisher Success
Connecting books to readers demands scalable marketing and technology tools that promote discoverability and sales using data that is acquired through the pools of readers and book consumers. Continue Reading
by Mary McAveney
12/6/2019
Altmetric for Books: What have we learned?
Launched in 2016, Altmetric for Books has collected over 4.6 million online mentions of more than 1.1 million books and book chapters. This data provides valuable insight about how researchers and the public engage with both trade books and scholarly monographs and their chapters. Continue Reading
12/1/2019
The Rebirth of Digital Books through Blockchain
For publishers, blockchain can help to secure digital files in an open environment, ensure the attribution and verification of the content rights holder, and perform automatic royalty distribution using smart contracts. Continue Reading
by Simon-Pierre Marion
10/27/2019
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
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