Committees

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG), through its Rights Committee led by Kris Kliemann, has launched Find a Rightsholder, a new tool to help users locate rights and permissions contacts for U.S. and U.K. publishers. This searchable database includes over 3,500 imprints—active, inactive, and defunct Continue Reading

The call-to-action details discussions held over the past two years to build a supply chain for the next generation of book publishing. It begins with an overarching question: "How do we reconceive the supply chain and prepare the book industry to meet today's and tomorrow's challenges?" Continue Reading

BISG will offer ONIX "Essentials" training across three half-day online sessions, scheduled for February 11 to February 13. Registration for this paid course is now open. Continue Reading

In the Name of Progress The Role of ISNI in Book Publishing: Enabling Accuracy, Discoverability, and Collaboration By Alaina-Marie Chapman, Communications Manager at the ISNI International Agency Continue Reading

The W3C proposes a specification for content conformance requirements for verifying the accessibility of EPUB® Publications. It also specifies accessibility metadata requirements for the discoverability of EPUB publications. Comments are due this week. Continue Reading

A personal reflection on some of the professional contributions of Noah Genner, who passed in August and was memorialized last weekend Continue Reading

BISG Board Member Phil Madans illustrates the importance of proper workflows, which can increase efficiency and improve communication. Continue Reading

Royalty statements, a critical piece of publishing communication, can be time consuming and confusing. The BISG Rights Committee working group has worked diligently on creating an outline for a set of best practices and proposed standards. Continue Reading

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

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

Making the case for standardizing fields in royalty statements. 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