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Why should I send data to Bowker?
Bowker is the leading provider of bibliographic data. You pay nothing to submit your data to Bowker. Sending your product data to Bowker ensures that your titles will be exposed to more than 3,000 subscribers of our Books In Print and Global Books In Print websites. Our customers come from many sectors of the book industry:

What data should I send?
Bowker requests that you supply data for all materials of interest to retailers, libraries, and school systems. These items typically have a valid, unique ISBN-13, EAN or UPC applied to them. Types of items include:

How can I send my data to Bowker?
Bowker’s data submission requirements and methods for data delivery are outlined in the attached documents. Publishers of all sizes may submit data to Bowker. Please, choose the method that best suits your company. Larger publishers and tech-savvy smaller publishers will use our ONIX guidelines. If you are not able to provide ONIX files, you can use our standardized Excel template. Whether you are submitting data in ONIX or Excel, please refer to our Image specifications. We currently require an image feed separate from your bibliographic data file.

What can I expect in this process?
Bowker’s Data Services team will work with you to review and test your bibliographic data file. Together, we will ensure that it meets industry specifications and allows for any unique information you may have above these standards. You will be assigned a set of analysts and an account manager to work with you through this process. The result is clean data within Bowker’s database and, in turn, any customer databases.