BISG Board Nominations Due December 15
Five seats are open for nominations from member organizations. Continue Reading
Postedby Brian F. O'Leary
Date posted11/18/2023
Leadership
Posts about leading-edge trends in the book publishing industry
BISG Calls for Board Nominations
Members of the Book Industry Study Group are invited to apply for a seat on its Board of Directors. The call for nominations will close on December 15. Continue Reading
Postedby Brian F. O'Leary
Date posted10/8/2023
BISG welcomes six new directors
BISG adds six new members to its 14-member board of directors. Learn more about who is leading BISG into the future. Continue Reading
Postedby Brian F. O'Leary
Date posted07/17/2023
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
Postedby Mary McAveney
Date posted12/6/2019
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
Date posted12/1/2019
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
Postedby Simon-Pierre Marion
Date posted10/27/2019
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
Postedby Laura Dawson
Date posted10/14/2019
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
Postedby David Hetherington
Date posted10/10/2019