The W3C proposes a specification for content conformance requirements for verifying the accessibility of EPUB® Publications. It also specifies accessibility metadata requirements for the discoverability of EPUB publications. Comments are due this week. Continue Reading
A personal reflection on some of the professional contributions of Noah Genner, who passed in August and was memorialized last weekend Continue Reading
BISG Board Member Phil Madans illustrates the importance of proper workflows, which can increase efficiency and improve communication. Continue Reading
Royalty statements, a critical piece of publishing communication, can be time consuming and confusing. The BISG Rights Committee working group has worked diligently on creating an outline for a set of best practices and proposed standards. Continue Reading
With less than a year to go before the European Accessibility Act goes into effect in June 2025, the publishing industry has been all aflutter trying to understand the depth and breadth of this EU law which, among other things, requires that all eBooks sold within the EU be accessible to the W3C... Continue Reading
The Book Industry Study Group is pleased to formally announce the launch of a new working group on accessibility metadata to help prepare the US book industry for compliance with the European Accessibility Act, which goes into effect on June 28, 2025. The goal of this group is not to set,... Continue Reading
Making the case for standardizing fields in royalty statements. Continue Reading
This has been a busy year for all of us in publishing and digital conversion, with the rapidly approaching June 28, 2025 deadline for complying with the European Accessibility Act. The Act itself is an overarching piece of EU law, which will be implemented within EU nations under individual... Continue Reading
In December 2023, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) launched a new working group to examine the impact and potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) within the book publishing industry. Since then, the AI Working Group, which reports to the Workflow Committee, has met to gather... Continue Reading
By Andreas Stobberup of 2K/Denmark and Victor Milligan of Cairnbridge Advisers Margin expansion remains elusive in the book publishing industry—and it may get worse before it gets better. The more severe impacts of Covid have receded, hyper-inflation has eased, and most publishers have... Continue Reading
Every day, organizations and individuals seek rights and permissions for intellectual property whose owners are difficult to reach, ambiguous, or unknown. The supply chain for rights frustrates anyone trying to negotiate a fair deal, and globally, millions of dollars are left on the table each... Continue Reading
The Book Industry Study Group is pleased to formally announce the launch of a new working group on the adoption of ISNI in the US market, which will operate under the oversight of BISG's Metadata Committee."ISNI is the ISO certified global standard number for identifying the millions of... Continue Reading
