BISG does its most important work in committee. When we’re discussing issues related to metadata, rights, content structur...

Last week , I wrote that BISG does its most important work in committee. Whenever we’re discussing issues affecting the bo...

November 6, 2018. Today the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) opened a call for nominations to its governing Board of Direc...

New York, NY (November 5 , 201 8 ) – The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) today announced the release of a draft white...

Last Friday, BISG hosted our annual " Making Information Pay: Higher Education " event at Macmillan Learning's New York of...

[Earlier this year, I was invited to speak at Firebrand's user meeting, which took place last month in Portsmouth, New Ham...

Much of my career in publishing has focused on optimizing processes, technology, and organizational structures to improve...

Last week, I sat down with Karen Myers and Ralph Swick of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) . We talk periodically, col...

The State of California recently updated regulations for Proposition 65. BISG's legal counsel, Dentons US, follows this la...

New York, NY (September 5, 2018) — On Monday September 17, 2018, the Book Industry Study Group will host a joint Metada...

The Book Industry Study Group has agreed to host a program and one of its webinars at Digital Book World, which takes plac...

BISG started 2018 with a goal of improving the quality and timeliness of metadata in the U.S. book industry. That’s our...

One month into my BISG career, I made it my goal to implement SocialLink. If you haven't visited yet, this step-by-step g...

Judith Appelbaum, whose book How to Get Happily Published  helped authors do just that, died at her home in Bedfor...

In 2016, the Book Industry Study Group announced an ambitious expansion of the content we provide our members and the in...

At the BISG annual meeting in April, we launched SocialLink , an important add-on to our membership system. The tool prov...

In a post in March, I described plans in place to make 2018 BISG’s “Metadata Year” . There, I outlined three planned summ...

Over the past several days, the American Library Association has been hosting its annual conference in New Orleans. Last...

In March, we led this newsletter with a post outlining the work BISG is doing to make 2018 “our metadata year” . We fol...

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will collaborate with KU Research and researchers from the universities of Michigan a...

Our content plan for 2018 is in full swing now. The first of three metadata summits took place on May 17, and we’re gear...

Here at the Book Industry Study Group, we’re looking forward to being part of BookExpo , which starts on May 30. We’ll be...

I’m writing this week about an important effort underway in the  BISG Rights Committee , which works to solve the mos...

Mumbai, April 24, 2018: MPS Limited (MPS) and Tata Industries Limited (TIL)announced today that they have entered into de...

[At BISG’s Annual Meeting of Members, held April 27 in New York, we recognized board attorney and lifelong first-amendment...

The Book Industry Study Group held its  annual meeting  last Friday, convening 175 people at the Harvard Club of...

A few weeks back, I wrote about our 2018 plan to help the book industry  create timely, high-quality metadata . That...

At BISG, we use the term “supply chain” a good deal. We want to be considered the primary resource for solving problems th...

Last week, BISG fielded its first “State of the Supply Chain” survey, designed to gather an industry-wide perspective on...

You may have seen that we’ve organized this weekly newsletter the same way we organize our committee work. Although relate...

In the office, Maya and I are excited to be working on the BISG annual meeting of members , scheduled for April 27 at the...

Through its committees and working groups , BISG surfaces and addresses problems that touch two or more parts of the book...

Over the next two weeks, BISG will publish four different surveys designed to capture information about ONIX 3, EPUB 3, an...

On March 15, BISG is hosting “How to Make Publishing Workflows REALLY Work” , our second two-hour program of 2018. The di...

A Woman of Valor: Celebrating Sally Dedecker by Charlotte Abbott Friends and colleagues of longtime Book Industr...