Michael Healy, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, to Discuss “Getting the Most from Today’s and Tomorrow’s Supply Chain”

New Providence, NJ - February 13, 2007 - Pubnet®, the publishing industry’s leading EDI provider, today announced that Michael Healy will be the Keynote Speaker at the fourth annual Pubnet User Group Meeting to be held March 4-5, 2007 at Indian Lakes Resort in Bloomingdale, Illinois.

Mr. Healy’s keynote speech will describe the impact standards, best practices, and certification can have on improving supply chain effectiveness and the tools currently available to achieve greater efficiency. The session will also focus on the preparations now underway to build new standards for the supply chain and will call for industry-wide participation and consensus in their development.

Mr. Healy is Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG), the US book industry’s leading trade association for policy, standards and research. Based in New York, BISG has a mission to help develop a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry supply chain.

Mr. Healy has worked in the book industry since 1983. Before taking up his current role at BISG he was for seven years Editorial Director of Nielsen Book Services, one of the world's leading providers of information, transaction and market-measurement services to the book trade.

For a large part of his career Mr. Healy has been involved in the development and management of standards for the book industry, with particular focus on standards for product identification, metadata and electronic commerce. In 2002 he was appointed by ISO to chair the international committee responsible for revising the ISBN standard and until November 2006 he was Chairman of the International ISBN Agency.

Other sessions at the User Group will be led by well-known industry experts, including:

• Jim McLaughlin, Director of Operations Analysis and Order Fulfillment, Penguin (USA) on the ISBN-13 transition
• Leading POS Vendors serving the publishing industry, including Dave Walton, IBD/IRT, Pat Phillips, MBS and additional invited guests

Pubnet is offering registration for the event at the price of $99 for booksellers and $199 for publishers and suppliers. To register or learn more about the conference, visit the Pubnet website at www.pubnet.org. Users can also contact Bruce Miller at: 908-219-0053 / bruce.miller@bowker.com for more information.

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Bowker is the world's leading provider of bibliographic information management solutions designed to help publishers, booksellers, and libraries better serve their customers. The company is focused on developing various tools and products that make books easier for people to discover, evaluate, order, and experience, as well as providing services to publishers that help them better understand and meet the interests of readers worldwide. Bowker is a member of the ProQuest family of companies and is headquartered in New Providence, N.J., with additional operations in England and Australia. For more information, please visit www.bowker.com.