Retail / Business
How Bowker serves a retail / business person
Bowker provides services for many business types, from chain, Independent and college retail bookstores, to online retailers, distributors and consultants for other businesses.
Our products are organized based on what you are looking for:Publishing Workflow Solutions
Bowker offers a wide range of solutions to assist the publishing community to transact and be informed on the flow of digital and print books throughout the publishing ecosystem.
PubTrack™
PubTrack is a set of business intelligence tools and services from Bowker providing the publishing industry with insight into digital and print market dynamics like never before.
PubEasy®
PubEasy is a web-based service providing 24x7, real-time access to customer service information from multiple suppliers. PubEasy is used globally by thousands of booksellers to quickly and efficiently place orders, check price and title availability, check order status, and track orders online with participating publishers, distributors and wholesalers.
Pubnet®
Pubnet is the publishing industry's leading EDI provider, streamlining the labor-intensive ordering process for all with end-to-end POS integration, web based ordering/management tools, fast response ordering, invoicing capabilities, shipment tracking and a unique title database.
Bowker Manuscript Submissions
Bowker Manuscript Submissions is an easy-to-use online manuscript proposal tool, connecting authors and publishers to help streamline the publishing process.
Identifier Services
My Identifiers
My Identifiers provides you with essential tools to help you reach your audience by making your titles more discoverable.
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
The most important identifier your book can have is the ISBN. As the U.S. ISBN Agency, Bowker is the ONLY official source of ISBNs in the United States. ISBNs provide unique identification for books and simplify the distribution of your books throughout the global supply chain. Without an ISBN, you will not be found in bookstores, either online, or down the street from your house.
Bookland EAN Barcode
A Bookland EAN Barcode encodes an ISBN number and price. When scanned at a store at the time of purchase, the barcode enables stores to maintain inventory and track sales. Every major bookseller requires a barcode for every physical book.
Bowker ViewInside Widget
The Bowker ViewInside Widget is a marketing tool for creating awareness of your books across various websites, social networks (like Facebook) and blogs.
ISNI (The International Standard Name Identifier)
The ISNI is an ISO-certified global standard for the identification of contributors to creative works. The ISNI system uniquely identifies public identities across multiple fields of creative activity that might otherwise be confused. An ISNI can be assigned to all parties that create, produce, manage, distribute or feature in creative content — including human beings, legal entities (such as a company), or fictional characters.
SAN (Standard Address Number)
The SAN is a unique seven-digit identifier used to signify a specific address of an organization in (or served by) the publishing industry. It is the method used by Pubnet and PubEasy systems and is required in all electronic data interchange communications using the Book Industry Systems Advisory Committee (BISAC) EDI formats.
Bookwire
Bookwire makes it easier for people to discover, evaluate, order, and experience books. Powered by Bowker's Books in Print® database, Bookwire makes it easy to search and discover over 20 million book titles, including print, e-books, audio books and more.
Data Licensing Services
Bowker Data On Demand™
Bowker Data On Demand is a self-contained web application serving custom metadata that can be published, located, and invoked across the web.
Bowker metadata offers a wealth of information related to print books, ebooks, college textbooks, audio books, and more. This is the core data that our customers (retailers, publishers, and bookstores) use every day, and what powers Bowker search and discovery services, like Books In Print® and Syndetic Solutions™.
Bowker Data Profiler™
Bowker Data Profiler is a service that enhances your library’s metadata, improving search and discovery. This new service processes e-content and extracts relevant information, creating enhanced metadata elements that can be fed back to a library’s or institution’s search engine.
Bibliographic Databases
Books In Print®
Books In Print combines the most trusted and authoritative source for bibliographic information with powerful search, discovery and collection development tools designed specifically to streamline the book discovery and acquisition process. Booksellers worldwide consult Books in Print to find titles, create lists and decide from Books in Print’s vast inventory files which vendor, ebook platform or online retailer to source the title.
Fiction and Non-Fiction Connection™
Fiction and Non-Fiction Connection are user friendly readers’ advisory services that recommend titles to your customers based on the books they have read, authors they like and topics that interest them. Access to Fiction and Non-Fiction Connection is free with your Books In Print subscription or can be purchased separately as a package.
Bowker Stacks™
A mobile app that allows subscribers to Books In Print or Resources For College Libraries to scan ISBN's, access book records and add titles to selected lists on the go or in the library stacks.
