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New organisational structure for ProQuest/Bowker
ProQuest has announced that it has reorganized into six business units, and named a new executive team. Among the changes, ProQuest has moved Bowker under the direction of Michael Gersch, senior VP a...
James Bennett partners with Ebrary
Library supplier James Bennett has announced it has partnered with ebook supplier Ebrary in Australia. In a statement, James Bennett said libraries could now ‘seamlessly integrate Ebrary's ebook...
3.1 million ISBNs issued in the US in 2010
New figures from Bowker, which holds the ISBN Agency in the US, show that 3.1 million new ISBNs were issued in the US in 2010: 316,480 to 'traditionally' published books and a huge 2,766,260 in 'non-...
Bowker to collect data for AAP/BISG industry study
Bowker (the parent company of WBN's publisher Thorpe-Bowker) has been announced as the data collection provider for a joint industry statistics program along with the Association of American Publisher...
Bowker to provide ISBNs for Google Editions
Bowker (the parent company of WBN's publisher Thorpe-Bowker) has announced that it will provde ISBNs for any ebooks sold by Google Editions that do not already have an ISBN assigned by their publisher...
US 'traditional' book production flat; massive increase in PoD and self-publishing
Figures from Bowker (WBN's parent company) show that US title output was flat or fell slightly during 2009, but that there was a massive increase in print-on-demand, self-publishing and other 'non-tra...
Bowker consumer study shows that women buy most books and Gen X buy online
A new report on US consumer behaviours from Bowker has shown that:57 percent of book buyers are women, yet women purchase 65 percent of the books sold in the US.Mystery books are the most popular genr...
In brief
Companion of the Order of Australia for BandlerIn addition to several other industry figures recognised in this year's Australia Day honours list, author Faith Bandler was awarded a Companion of the O...
CIG buys a stake in LibraryThing
CIG (Cambridge Information Group), the parent company of Bowker (and of WBN's owner Thorpe-Bowker), ProQuest, Serials Solutions, AquaBrowser and RefWorks, has bought a stake in library social networki...
Bowker and Nielsen appointed as ISTC agents
Both Bowker and Nielsen Book have been accredited as agents for the new 'top-level' identifier ISTC (International Standard Text Code).
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