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.
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
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
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
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
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
