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's Industry Innovator Award recognizes an organization or individual who boldly reimagines what publishing is and can be. Continue Reading
As U.S. tariffs are introduced, modified, and interpreted, we're posting what we are learning in this evolving article. Continue Reading
The opening conversation at BISG's annual meeting will capture how two member companies look at the meeting's call to action, "Move Fast and Fix Things." Continue Reading
BISG's Industry Champion Award, which honors an individual whose efforts have advanced the publishing industry as a whole, will be given to Lee Wind, Chief Content Officer for the Independent Book Publishers Association. Continue Reading
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will recognize Dominique Raccah, Founder and CEO of award-winning publisher Sourcebooks, with the Sally Dedecker Award for Lifetime Service. Continue Reading
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) is proud to announce that Perfect Bound has joined its membership. Perfect Bound’s innovative, integrated suite of services—including title management, a printing marketplace, sales and inventory tracking, royalties and rights management, and... Continue Reading
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) is excited to announce our presence at two pivotal industry events in London this March. We invite you to join us at the London Book Fair and HP’s ConTEXT—prime opportunities to engage in meaningful discussions on the trends and challenges shaping... Continue Reading
At BISG, we're fans of both speed and experimentation, but not at the cost of the supply chain that holds the industry together. Our upcoming annual meeting showcases what we're doing. 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
