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.
Join us for the latest update on BISG's proposed standard for translation rights royalty statements. Continue Reading
To build an effective digital product workflow, start with the end in mind. This blog outlines key steps—from defining the product’s purpose to ensuring metadata and vendor support—to help publishers save time, reduce costs, and deliver successful digital formats. Continue Reading
The map of BISAC 2024 to Thema 1.6 includes more than 1,600 changes that help publishers choose the right Thema codes for their titles. Continue Reading
This year’s NISO x BISG Forum at ALA, Accessibility Standards and the Future of Inclusive Publishing, will examine how evolving standards are shaping the development, distribution, and discoverability of accessible content. Continue Reading
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) is conducting a new survey developed by our AI Working Group to better understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is currently being used—and how it’s likely to shape the future—across the North American book publishing supply chain. From... Continue Reading
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG), through its Rights Committee led by Kris Kliemann, has launched Find a Rightsholder, a new tool to help users locate rights and permissions contacts for U.S. and U.K. publishers. This searchable database includes over 3,500 imprints—active, inactive, and defunct Continue Reading
The call-to-action details discussions held over the past two years to build a supply chain for the next generation of book publishing. It begins with an overarching question: "How do we reconceive the supply chain and prepare the book industry to meet today's and tomorrow's challenges?" Continue Reading
At its most recent meeting, the BISG board reviewed progress against the strategic plan, discussed a proposed change in member dues policies that will be voted on in July, and considered the results of an annual board self-assessment. Continue Reading
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
