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Issue: Winter 2011
Welcome to the winter issue of Bowker News! This quarterly publication is meant to bring together information,
tips, stories and updates from all Bowker products, which serve libraries, retailers, publishers, and individuals.
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All-New Books In Print
Smart & Good Looking!
Bowker welcomes the next generation of Books In Print. With the All-New Books In Print, you can search the marketplace, find the right titles, and connect with the vendor that's right for you.
Books In Print is the smart and good-looking choice for libraries, booksellers, publishers, and other information professionals. It combines the valuable content and search tools you've always found with new discovery features, more complete bookseller information, publisher tracking assistance, and a visually appealing interface to that allows patrons to easily find what they need.
Search: Unprecedented search capabilities
Search everything in the market from books, e-books, audio books to videos, through the single Google-like search box. With the new "FRBRization" tool, result lists are easier to review.
Discover: Built-in word cloud and social media technology
Discover more of what you like with all-new visual display and social media features built into Books In Print, such as the word cloud. With My Discoveries, users can make lists, tag items, rate them, and write their own reviews.
Connect: Find favorite authors, genres, and purchase points
Used every day by thousands of books professionals and library patrons, Books In Print allows them to make connections and search with 50 or more data elements such as author, genre, and price.
Find out how to make the switch.
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Syndetic Solutions is the premier source of specialized, high-quality enriched data designed to enhance library online catalogs.
Syndetics strives to provide a wide variety of the most useful information available, much of which cannot be found in online bookseller catalogs or other sources.
Syndetics offers three different ways to bring your catalog to life!
Featured Element: Fiction Profiles.
Ever wish you could type in a couple of key words and get back a wealth of choices? With Syndetics, you can do just that with Searchable Book Profiles. Upgrade to Syndetics Plus to get this element. Contact our sales team to learn how.
Fiction profile keyword search reveals books by genre, geographic setting, time periods, character(s), awards, and plot summaries.
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LibraryThing for Libraries (LTFL) enhancements enrich your library's online catalog with the power and fun of Library 2.0.
Bring the power of your library anywhere, with a new mobile web app which allows you to search, discover and interact with your library—anywhere. (More)
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Industry News
PubTrack is the Anchor Sponsor in BISG's conference
What College Students Think: Making Information Pay for Higher Ed Publishing
The changing ways college students use educational materials will be explored in a half-day live event, February 9, 2011 at the Yale Club of New York City—a new conference in BISG's successful Making Information Pay series.
Book companies focusing on the higher education marketplace can learn the ways in which new media is impacting how and where college students are acquiring course materials when the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) hosts a new half-day live conference, titled "What College Students Think: Making Information Pay for Higher Ed Publishing", February 9, 2011 at the Yale Club of New York City. More
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Bowker Manuscript Submissions is an online manuscript submission service for authors wanting to present their book proposals to the leading publishers in the industry. Some of the benefits of BowkerManuscriptSubmissions.com are:
- Promote your manuscript idea to multiple publishers with one click
- Allow publishers to easily locate manuscript submissions they are most interested in publishing
- Connect with industry professionals to refine your manuscript
The site gives authors a chance to step into the spotlight, and helps publishers easily sort through the "slush pile" of manuscripts they receive to find the next bestseller. BMS provides a no-cost solution for publishers to find exactly what they're looking for. Based on the highly successful Christian Manuscript Submissions service, BMS provides authors a significantly more cost-efficient method for submitting a manuscript to multiple publishers, while editors gain electronic tools to quickly and effectively sift many submissions based on specific search criteria.
Visit our website and "Like" our Facebook page!
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Publisher Relations
Reaching the Tipping Point: eBooks and metadata
Ralph Coviello reviews the exponential growth of the ebook and its metadata as of 2010.
12/10/10
2010 was the year publishers decided that ebooks were here to stay and it was time to get on board, ready or not. The reason is that in the three years since the Kindle was introduced in November 2007, ebook sales and revenue had grown at an astounding rate. In the third quarter of 2007, just prior to the introduction of the Kindle, wholesale ebook sales stood at $8M. As of October 2010, the YTD figures had soared to $340.1M, or almost 9% of trade book sales. This represents a growth rate of nearly 1500% according to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). As we all know rapid growth frequently involves growing pains and one of the most significant issues facing this new medium is how to identify an ebook during its life-cycle across the supply chain from publisher to retail platforms to library platforms to readers. Many factors impacting the ebook come from outside of publishing, which is where the ebook has its roots. Some see the solution to identification as the ISBN and metadata standards established by the publishing industry, but others disagree. Because of the ebook's amazing growth it is an issue that can no longer be ignored and Bowker's Publisher Relations department discusses it with stakeholders on a continuing basis. See more.
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Welcome to the new MyIdentifiers.com, the home of the Bowker United States ISBN Agency. Check out our new home page and experience the ease of navigating this site. In addition to clearer directions, we have developed seven online guides that take your step-by-step through the most common processes, from basic knowledge, to setting up your account, to purchasing an ISBN.
MyIdentifiers.com provides publishers with tools and resources to purchase and assign book “identifiers” such as ISBNs, SANs, and bar codes.
The best thing about MyIdentifiers.com is that you can get all your needs taken care of at one site.
Check out all of the User Guides (PDF):
https://www.myidentifiers.com
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Published by ACRL's CHOICE and Bowker, RCL experts hand-select the ideal core collections for libraries, across numerous academic subjects. Titles include books, monographs, series, reference works, and textbooks, as well as electronic resources such as websites and audio-visual media.
RCLWeb expanded its offerings with Resources for College Libraries: Career Resources (RCL-CR) by combining the comprehensive bibliographic resources from RCL to create recommended titles for community and vocational/technical colleges, as well as four-year institutions. With these two resources, users have access to nearly 74,000 titles.
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About Bowker
Bowker is the world's leading provider of
bibliographic information management solutions
designed to help publishers, booksellers, and
libraries better serve their customers.
Through the wide range of reference and
reporting products and services, since 1872, Bowker
delivers products public, academic, research and
government libraries can rely on.
Publishers and booksellers also rely on the Bowker supply
chain services and the information that drives
their transactions on a daily basis.
More.
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Resources for College Libraries
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