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December 27, 2008Waiting for Scorsese Excerpt: "Of the 500 to 600 movies, counting art-house films, that are made yearly, only a fraction of those are based on novels, Kirsch said. And there are more than 50,000 works of fiction published each year, according to Bowker, publisher of Books in Print." December 16, 2008Follow the Money: Promoting Magazines & Books More Efficiently Excerpt: "Book publishers are publishing more titles than ever – but selling fewer copies of each. They are trying to match the ever diverse and fickle passions of the consumer. This past year, according to Books In Print, over 412,000 new books were published." December 14, 2008HEDNA Studies Unique Global Identifiers Excerpt: "The study investigated how such identification systems work in other industries. Among the organizations researched were the American Bankers Association (bank routing numbers) R.R. Bowker LLC (International Standard Book Numbers or ISBNs), and the International Air Transport Association." December 9, 2008Bail Out the Writers! Excerpt: "According to the industry tracker Bowker, about 275,000 new titles and editions are published in the United States each year." December 9, 2008Indiebound Crawling Toward the 21st Century Excerpt: "You'd think they'd figure out how to make secure entry sites so publishers or authors could enter all this complicated stuff and the bookcovers. Bowker -- the ISBN people -- has had that up and running for years. Nobody's using their model? It's nice and secure, and even the authors get to rise and fall on their own data. It lists all the distributors and direct orders and no retailer has to wander around looking for the books. What gets me is, why isn't Indiebound linking to Bowker as the homesite for ISBN's? Why all the extra steps?" December 1, 2008Looking at Who Buys What Where Excerpt: "Teenagers largely bought their books at the national bookstore chains in 2007, while their grandparents shopped for books from a variety of outlets. That was one of the findings drawn from PubTrack Consumer, the R.R. Bowker service that uses a national online survey to track various aspects of consumer book-buying behavior and patterns." November 24, 2008Magic Johnson on Succeeding in Business - and Finding Balance Excerpt: "Mr Johnson's book comes at a time when the public's appetite for such titles appears to be waning. The number of business advice titles fell significantly, to 7651 in 2007 from 8719 in 2006, according to Books in Print, which is owned by R.R. Bowker, a provider of bibliographic information." November 1, 2008Updates Emerge from SirsiDynix Excerpt: "New features and fixes added to this release of the Horizon 7.4.2 core ILS system and HIP 3.10 include the ability to ... support supplemental catalog content like book reviews and cover art from Bowker's Syndetic Deluxe." October 28, 2008Book Marketing: Factors that Influence Book Buyers Purchase Decisions Excerpt: "Bowker revealed its annual count of books published in the U.S. recently…The country saw a whopping 195,000 new titles in 2004, up 14% from the previous year...." October 24, 2008Book Titles Like to Play the Warren Buffett Name Game Excerpt: "There are 47 books in print, according to Books In Print, that have Buffett's name in the title...." October 9, 2008A Book is a Book, is a Book ... or Is It? Excerpt: "Book production is flat -- no, wait -- “stunning,” according to 2007 ’s preliminary figures from R. R. Bowker’s Books in Print database. The difference depends on what counts as a book...." October 8, 2008Give Me an 'E' Excerpt: "Bibliographic provider Bowker reported that 134,773 print-on-demand titles were sold in the US in 2007...." October 6, 2008Publishers Bet Big on Cookbooks Excerpt: "The number of cookbook titles declined to 2,673 in 2007 from 3,062 in 2005, according to Books in Print, which is owned by R.R. Bowker, a provider of bibliographic information...." September 16, 2008MEITUS: What's Cooking in Smaller Cookbooks Excerpt: "According to Bowker's Books in Print, 1,956 cookbooks were published in 2006 (the latest figures), down somewhat from 2005 (see, told you so) but still a very healthy segment of the book-buying market. Twenty-five hardcover cookbooks made various best-seller lists for that year...." September 12, 2008BISG Has Successful Year Excerpt: "Bowker, which is the U.S. Registration Agency, is looking for a partner to pilot a test of ISTC...." September 1, 20081/3 of All Textbooks Available as eTextbooks at CourseSmart Excerpt: "R.R. Bowker’s PubTrack specializes in collecting data on the college textbook market much like a BookScan for the trade market or Nielson in consumer products...." August 23, 2008The Backstory on the Buffett Book Excerpt: "Bowker's Books in Print says there are an estimated 60 titles in print about [Warren Buffett], with more than a dozen new ones on tap this year...." August 20, 2008How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Self-Publishing Excerpt: "This May, publishing industry research firm Bowker found that while traditional publishing numbers held steady in 2007, "on demand" and short-run titles skyrocketed...." August 18, 2008Print On Demand: A Cautionary Tale Excerpt: "According to Bowker's Books in Print database, book production rose a staggering 39% in 2007, and only 1% of that was traditional publishing. Print-on-demand titles provided the rest. The scary part of these statistics is that booksales rose only 4.4%...." July 25, 2008The Fine Print Excerpt: "Although the death of books at the hands of electronic communications has been widely predicted, more books were published last year than the previous year, with 276,649 titles appearing, up 2,000 over 2006, according to Bowker, a company which tracks the publishing industry and publishes “Books in Print” annually...." July 14, 2008Laughing Stock Up Excerpt: "The category has grown considerably since Stewart and his fellow Daily Show writers turned out their version of history; there are now an additional 450 titles to the annual output, according to Bowker. (See table, below.) ..." July 14, 2008AquaBrowser Adds Social Networking Tools Excerpt: "Medialab, creator of the library search and discovery platform AquaBrowser, announced the general release of My Discoveries with functionality for users to create reviews and ratings and view personal tags ..." July 13, 2008Easy Readers, Tough Topics Excerpt: "Bibliotherapy has grown by stacks, according to librarians. Each year, about 30,000 new titles for the entire juvenile market are published, R.R. Bowker's Books in Print estimated. While the company does not break out books on touchy issues, librarians say they have seen more titles in that category in recent years." July 10, 2008Core Collection: Electronic Readers’-Advisory Tools Excerpt: "Bowker’s FictionConnection and NonfictionConnection use an innovative tag cloud browsing system (searching by title or author is also an option on the main search page), making it one of the first and best users of Web 2.0 technologies.... The ease of use and familiarity of tag clouds make these the databases most likely to appeal to and be used by patrons as well as librarians." July 3, 2008Business Books Excerpt: "Books in Print reports that the supply of titles written by entrepreneurs or about entrepreneurship has grown more than 60% since 2002, to more than 300 in 2007." June 21, 2008Making Money, Attending Conferences, Creating Books Excerpt: "Bowker announced that in 2007 there were 276,649 NEW titles released last year, up about two thousand from the previous year ..." June 21, 2008Publishing Continues to Change Excerpt: "According to Bowker, the number of books produced in 2007 was 411,422." June 17, 2008Daily Briefing Excerpt: "Over the past six years, the number of books written by entrepreneurs or about entrepreneurship has risen steadily, to an estimated 312 in 2007 from 188 in 2002, according to Books in Print, which is owned by R.R. Bowker, a provider of bibliographic information." June 16, 2008Creating a Best-Selling Book Excerpt: "Still, at a time when industry tracker Bowker reports traditional publishing is flat and business titles declined 12 percent in 2007 to 7,650, creating a best seller involves more than crafting good content." June 16, 2008Me, Me, Meby Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Wall Street Journal Excerpt: "Over the past six years, the number of books written by entrepreneurs or about entrepreneurship has risen steadily, to an estimated 312 in 2007 from 188 in 2002, according to Books in Print, which is owned by R.R. Bowker, a provider of bibliographic information." June 15, 2008Bookstore Readings Go Localby J. Peder Zane, The News & Observer Excerpt: "Thanks to the development of print-on-demand technologies, the number of new titles published in the United States has almost tripled during the last five years, to 411,422 last year, according to R.R. Bowker, which publishes Books in Print." June 10, 2008John Dough on Demand Excerpt: "Bowker now counts new print-on-demand books separately from books printed in a traditional way instead of including everything with an ISBN in the same count ..." June 9, 2008Entrepreneurs Get Book Smart Excerpt: "While the number of books published by traditional publishing houses was flat in 2007, at 276,650 titles, print-on-demand titles soared to 135,000 from 22,000 the prior year, according to a May report from Bowker, a New Providence, N.J.-based firm that tracks the industry and publishes Books in Print. "'The incredible growth of print-on-demand is a clear indication of the new technology that is affording would-be or first- or second-time authors the opportunity to get their books out there in the marketplace,' said Kelly Gallagher, general manager of business intelligence at Bowker. Before the emergence of print-on-demand, publishers that use digital printers instead of traditional offset printing, authors needed to place a minimum print run of 5,000 books to make a book economically feasible, Gallagher said. The cost of entry was about $10,000." June 5, 2008Reshaping the Presidency: New Web Site Invites Essays on Obama Excerpt: "'Not only is it fast, but print on demand publishing is growing dramatically,' Beckham points out, referring to a recent survey by R.R. Bowker. They reported that the production of print on demand titles increased by more than 300% in the five-year period ending in 2007, while traditionally published titles increased by only 29 percent." June 2, 2008On-Demand Output Soars Excerpt: "The total number of new and revised editions released in the U.S. rose 39% in 2007, to 411,422 titles, according to preliminary figures released by R.R. Bowker ..." June 1, 2008Booksellers Talk Big, Act Quietly at Convention Excerpt: "New annual releases keep increasing (more than 276,000, according to researchers R.R. Bowker) ..." May 29, 2008 Preliminary 2007 Books Stats Are Out Excerpt: "Bowker, the official ISBN agency for the United States and publisher of Books In Print, has released its preliminary stats for 2007 ..." May 28, 2008On-Demand Titles Drive Jump in Book Output Excerpt: "The production of traditional books rose 1% in 2007, to 276,649 new titles and editions, but the output of on-demand, short run and unclassified titles soared from 21,936 in 2006 to 134,773 last year, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday by R.R. Bowker ..." May 26, 2008The Individual Man Excerpt: "Bowker's PubTrack has compiled data on the sale of business management books in 2007, and the buying habits confirm that the market might be trending younger ..." May 9, 2008Memoirs: Whose Truth --And Does It Matter? Excerpt: "Since 1999, sales in the biography-and-memoir category have grown from $170 million to $270 million, according to the annual Bowker Industry Report." April 27, 2008You're an Author? Me Too! Excerpt: "In 2007, a whopping 400,000 books were published or distributed in the United States, up from 300,000 in 2006, according to the industry tracker Bowker, which attributed the sharp rise to the number of print-on-demand books and reprints of out-of-print titles." April 7, 2008Chains, Internet Ruled Bookselling in 2007 Excerpt: "Bookstore chains and online retailers accounted for more than half of all book units bought by adults 18 years old and older, according to figures compiled by PubTrack Consumer, a new service introduced by Bowker in 2007." March 31, 2008Handicapping a B&N Takeover of Borders Excerpt: "Bowker estimates the two combined would account for 27% of books sold by all retailers." March 25, 2008The Publishing Series Part 1: Print-On-Demand Excerpt: "ISBNS are issued by a company called Bowker. You can buy a single one, or blocks of 10, 100 or 1000 at a time. When you buy from a POD printer and not directly from Bowker, your ISBN belongs to the POD company that is printing your book." March 16, 2008Paperback Row Excerpt: "R. R. Bowker, the company that assigns International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) to books published in the United States, has developed codes and identifiers that define which books are trade paperbacks and which are mass-market." March 5, 2008Keeping Up ... What's Your Strategy? Excerpt: "RR Bowker, the company that owns the ISBN (International Standard Book Numbers) system, estimates that between 245,000 and 300,000 new books were published in each of the years 2002-2006, (2002 - 247,777, 2003 - 266,322, 2004 - 295,523, 2005 - 282,500, 2006 - 291,922)." February 27, 2008Selling Your Book Online Excerpt: "You can acquire an ISBN here, or you can go to Bowker Publisher Services, which is the official ISBN agency for the U.S. "Bowker is responsible for the assignment of ISBNs to publishers with a residence or office in the U.S.," Honsberger says. " February 20, 2008Save a Book Excerpt: "It is a sad fact but true, that books are being published faster than libraries are being built. R.R. Bowker reports that over 291,000 new books were published in 2006. That’s 33 books per hour 24/7, 365 days a year. And that’s a lot of books." January 28, 2008Lost in the Sauce Excerpt: "If I were a publisher, I would not depend on just the free Internet resources mentioned above. I would pay to subscribe to Bowker’s Books In Print, whose core business is not selling books, but maintaining a complete database of all books published or announced for publication since the inception of the ISBN in 1968." December 31, 2007Chains, Internet Dominate Bookselling Excerpt: "Chain bookstores accounted for 33% of unit book purchases in the January through September period, according to figures compiled by PubTrack Consumer, a new service introduced by Bowker earlier in 2007." December 12, 2007Older Adults and E-Books -- and How E Could Be the New Large ‘Print’ Excerpt: "Researching this essay, I looked at the Bowker’s Books in Print professional database and found that only two percent of the books printed from 2000 - 2007 were published in large print. Just one-tenth of mysteries, one of the most popular genres for the elderly, appeared in large print in 2006." December 9, 2007Crowded Shelves Excerpt: "Publishers released more than 9,000 business titles in 2006, according to RR Bowker, which tracks U.S. books sales."
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