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BISG US releases ebook ISBN best-practice guidelines
Looking to address the problem of confusion in the marketplace around product identification, the Book Industry Study Group is publishing a Policy Statement that outlines best practices for assignin...
Around the World
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon.co.uk introduces agency pricing with Hachette, HarperCollins and PenguinGerman bookseller lau...
ISBN and ebooks debate continues
The debate about the need to assign new ISBNs to digital titles continues with this piece from Erik Chirstopher at Publishing Perspectives, who says there is no universal answer to the problem. ...
Nielsen to launch ebook chart in 'months rather than years'
Ebooks in Australia must be consistently identified by ISBN before an ebook bestseller chart service can be created, according to Nielsen BookScan Australia spokesperson Shaun Symonds. Following a sta...
UK ebook bestseller chart 'months not years' away
Nielsen BookScan is promising a comprehensive ebook bestseller chart for the UK within months, but says that publishers not applying separate ISBNs to ebooks is a hurdle.
'Identifier confusion' shakes ebook industry
With an ever-increasing need for metadata across multiple formats, many are wondering if ISBNs are sufficient or appropriate identifiers for ebooks and other digital content.
In brief
New category for WA's Premier's Book Awards The State Library of Western Australia has announced that a new category will be added to the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards from next ...
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 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...
Ebook ISBN 'mess' needs sorting out
UK publishers are trying to establish a common identifer standard for ebooks, and are debating whether every different format of an ebook should have a separate ISBN....
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