Michael Tamblyn, President and Chief Executive Officer at Rakuten Kobo, will deliver the keynote address at BISG’s Annual...

[After this post was written and published, the organizers (including BISG) elected to postpone the first meeting to May 1...

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) is pleased to announce a slate of nominees for its Board of Directors. Candidates wer...

Mark your calendars: the 2019 BISG Annual Meeting of Members is coming up on April 26th, and it's the biggest supply-c...

BISG's broad membership stretches across the United States and includes several international organizations. This proves t...

At its January meeting, the BISG approved two new charters, one each for our Metadata and Workflow committees.  ...

Last week, I attended both Winter Institute 14 , hosted in Albuquerque, New Mexico by the American Booksellers Associatio...

In my third year in this role, I’ve learned it’s never too early to start planning an annual meeting. Today, we’re opening...

  Robin Seaman was a valued BISG Member, leader, and friend. Today, Publishers Weekly circulated her obituary n...

Welcome to 2019! For the coming year, the Book Industry Study Group has developed a calendar that will foster the kinds...

New York, NY (December 6, 2018) – At its annual “Committee Town Hall”, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) today prese...

Earlier this year, BISG fielded its first  “State of the Supply Chain”  survey, designed to gather an industry-w...

Earlier this month, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) opened a call for nominations to its governing Board of Directors...

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...

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

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...