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The Changing Standards Landscape
Access or Ownership: Evolving Business Models and Your Institution
ALA Annual Conference | June 26, 2015
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BISG’s mission is to facilitate
innovation and shared solutions for
the benefit of all companies and
practitioners that create, produce, and
distribute published content, and the
organizations that support them..
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BISG’s mission is to facilitate
innovation and shared solutions for
the benefit of all companies and
practitioners that create, produce, and
distribute published content, and the
organizations that support them..
© 2015, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.

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Horizontally Oriented
AAP AAUP ABA ALA
Hachette Cambridge
UP
Book People Public
librarians
HarperCollins Oxford UP The King’s
English
Academic
librarians
Penguin
Random
House
Univ of
Chicago
Press
McLean &
Eakin
School
librarians
S&S Univ of
Nebraska
Press
Blue Willow
Bookshop
Institutional
librarians
Most trade groups
represent verticals.
BISG
BISG represents the
entire horizontal
industry
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Standards and
Best Practices
Research
Education
and Events
Focus on EPUB,
ID of E-Books,
Metadata…
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BISG Committees
 Content Structure (EPUB)
 Identification (ISBN, ISNI, DOI…)
 Manufacturing & Distribution
 Metadata (ONIX)
 Rights
 Subject Codes (BISAC, Thema)
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http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/
Copyright 2009-2010 Jenn Riley. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 U..S

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Thank you!
Julie Morris
Project Manager, Standards & Best Practices
julie@bisg.org