BISG's fiscal and board years start on July 1, so this week we welcome three new members of the board: Joshua Boisvert (Re...

Recognizing the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has decided to reposition...

As part of governance changes made in 2017 , BISG created the Association Advisory Council (AAC), a gathering of associat...

This week, BISG is pleased to welcome Jonathan Fiedler as our operations manager. Jonathan joins us from Columbia Univers...

On Thursday evening at 6 p.m., BISG is hosting what we have been calling our first online "happy hour" . We conceived and...

In the early evening of May 21, nearly six dozen lovers of bookish trivia, organized across 25 cleverly named teams, battl...

Last month, the BISG board of directors hosted a 90-minute conversation about the impact of COVID-19 on the book industr...

Last week, BISG announced an addition to our content calendar that deserves special mention: an online Bookish Trivia Soc...

In 2016, the Book Industry Study Group hosted a day-long program, " Making A Profit By Making A Difference ". The content...

With the in-person annual meeting postponed to September 11 , BISG members gathered virtually on April 24 to learn about...

Last Thursday, BISG launched a survey to better understand and share how the book industry is responding to the spreadin...

If your email is anything like mine, in the last two weeks you've been inundated by messages from every company that wants...

The Book Industry Study Group has elected to postpone its Annual Meeting of Members, originally scheduled for April 24. Th...

In 2018, the Book Industry Study Group joined a Mellon-funded project, led by the University of Michigan and accompanied b...

As our flagship event, the BISG Annual Meeting gives us the chance to review progress in the past year, look ahead to the...

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced today that it will recognize David Cully , former President of Baker &...

Last month, BISG announced plans to bring ONIX training to three cities : New York, Minneapolis, and Chicago. Sessions ar...

Earlier this month, BISG's metadata committee discussed and endorsed a "countdown calendar" to help guide the U.S. book...

At BISG, the work required to solve problems affecting two or more parts of the supply chain often starts in our five sta...

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced today that James Daunt, named CEO of Barnes & Noble in August of 2019,...

Metadata has been a BISG priority for more than two decades. The organization was part of early work to introduce ONIX in...

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has published the 2019 update to its book publishing subject codes, often referred...

At a November 20 meeting of BISG's Metadata Committee , Bowker's John Purcell and Pat Payton provided an update on plans...

Today, BISG launched its annual  “State of the Supply Chain”  survey, designed to gather an industry-wide perspe...

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has opened a call for nominations to its governing Board of Directors. Nominations ar...

Everyone I spoke to had some advice: wear comfortable shoes, drink Emergen-C and try not to get sick, take every opportuni...

Workflows make or break businesses across the book industry supply chain. In 2019, BISG created its Workflow Committee to...

The Book Industry Study Group is always searching for new opportunities for the publishing supply chain, from standardizin...

This event isn't like anything you or your colleagues have attended before, unless you joined us at its first incarnation...

With only four months left in 2019, BISG is looking toward 2020, and we are proud to present our content calendar for the...

The first post in this series described the genesis of Thema and its basic structure of category codes, qualif...

You might picture BISG's dedicated staff hard at work in our Midtown offices, a stone's throw from the Empire State Buildi...

Students know all the alternatives to shelling out hundreds of dollars on college textbooks. Visit a campus library and yo...

In the mid-1980s, admittedly a while ago, my second job in publishing took me to Singapore . I moved there to oversee pri...

While many across the publishing industry are busy enjoying summer Fridays and family vacations, BISG is already anticipat...