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Information Today August 29, 2013 |
Nielsen Acquires Bowker Products Nielsen continues to collect more data than who's watching what on television: It has expanded its book-related intelligence information through its recent acquisition of Bowker's market research and commerce solutions products.  |
Information Today July 13, 2009 |
Bowker Introduces Books In Print 2.0 BIP 2.0 is a new dynamic book search and discovery platform that provides librarians, researchers, and library patrons with access to the richest set of book information available in the reference market.  |
Information Today July 2, 2007 |
R.R. Bowker Acquires Medialab Solutions R.R. Bowker has announced its acquisition of Medialab Solutions, creators of the AquaBrowser Library search and discovery platform.  |
Information Today December 1, 2011 |
Nielsen Research Finds Metadata Helps Increase Book Sales One interesting finding was the 42% sales increase that enhanced metadata has on growing sales of some backlist titles that previously had no enhanced metadata.  |
Information Today March 5, 2001 Barbara Quint |
Ingram to Create New Book Catalog Database, Drop Long-Standing Connection with Bowker Ingram Customer Systems, Inc. has announced that in early April it will release a comprehensive new book-title database to booksellers and libraries...  |
Information Today March 21, 2013 |
New Bowker Study on Ebook Markets The rise in ebook reading in the U.S. and U.K. over the last 3 years has been a key driver in the market share gains of e-retailers, according to research being released this month by Bowker Market Research.  |
Information Today November 3, 2011 |
The Wall Street Journal Debuts Ebook Best-Seller List Using Nielsen Data The new charts, which debuted on Oct. 29, will appear weekly as part of WSJ Weekend, the Journal's weekend edition, in print and on WSJ.com.  |
Information Today January 13, 2015 Nancy K. Herther |
Ebooks in 2015: Trends and Forecasts Part 1 Clearly, e-reading is becoming a staple in libraries across North America.  |
Information Today April 2, 2012 |
Bowker's Global eBook Monitor Generates Usage Statistics Bowker Market Research's Global eBook Monitor studies the rate of adoption and buyer demographics of ebooks in 10 major markets.  |
Information Today May 23, 2011 |
Print Isn't Dead, Says Bowker's Annual Book Production Report Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that despite the popularity of ebooks, traditional U.S. print title output in 2010 increased 5%.  |
Information Today June 3, 2013 |
IngramSpark Service Debuts Publish-on-Demand Platform This online publishing tool grants independent publishers easy-to-use, cost-effective access to Ingram's global distribution network for print and ebooks.  |
Information Today May 3, 2012 |
Ebook Consumers Say Yes to Tablets, Says BISG Study Ebook consumers' preference for tablets is accelerating rapidly as dedicated e-readers drop in popularity, according to the Book Industry Study Group's closely watched "Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading" survey.  |
Information Today June 25, 2015 |
ProQuest Debuts Ebook Central in Beta; Expands Primary Source Collections With the beta program comes new features such as the ability to see which books in search results are available.  |
Information Today February 3, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest Congressional Quarterly Redesigns CQ.com... Ingenta Announces New Publishing Partners... Bowker Launches New Serials Management System  |
Information Today September 22, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Alacra Adds Analyses from Oxford Analytica... R.R. Bowker Acquires Simba Information... LexisNexis Adopts XyEnterprise Publishing Solutions...  |
Information Today June 11, 2012 Dan Tonkery |
BEA 2012: Libraries Still Draw the Short Stick Libraries do not have much to celebrate from Book Expo other than their copyright win at the Georgia State University and even that win may be short lived as the publishers have requested an injunction to stop certain types of usage of reserve material.  |
Information Today January 6, 2015 |
The U.K. and Ireland Get Their Own Academic Complete ebrary (a ProQuest business) rolled out a new edition of its Academic Complete subscription database that is designed for researchers in the U.K. and Ireland.  |
Information Today April 29, 2013 |
collectionHQ Expands Collection Development Tools to Ebook Titles The addition of these tools, called the ebook module, means that for the first time, librarians can easily access data that compare ebook and print holdings.  |
Information Today November 5, 2012 |
iPublishCentral Powers New Bowker 'Book as an Android App' "Book as an Android App" allows authors and small publishers to use Bowker's www.myidentifiers.com to create Android-compatible ebook apps from any PDF or EPUB document, opening new sales channels.  |
Information Today February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology.  |
Information Today April 11, 2013 |
Bowker, ebrary, and Choice Enhance Access to Resources for College Libraries Choice and Bowker, whose unique partnership created RCL, have launched a variety of enhancements which are used by academic libraries to identify core titles for scores of academic subject areas.  |
Information Today April 25, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries.  |
Information Today February 14, 2013 |
DCL Teams With Bowker to Support Self-Publishers Digital publishing services provider Data Conversion Laboratory announced a partnership with bibliographic information provider Bowker to better serve the self-publishing market.  |
Information Today November 2004 |
NewsBytes SLA Partnership Awarded Grant... Dialog Enters Content Agreement, Expands Dialog Choice... FIZ Karlsruhe, Max Planck Society in Strategic Partnership... IHS Acquires USA Information Systems... etc.  |
Information Today April 12, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Tsunami -- From Antitrust to Burgeoning Sales The ebook tsunami is still in play; new issues, problems, and possibilities occur almost daily. We can do little more than watch, wonder, and improvise as the forces of innovation and commercialism work through this time of change in publishing.  |
Information Today May 30, 2013 |
Ingram Expands Publisher Services With Life Print Program Ingram Content Group, Inc. announced the launch of its Life Print program, a comprehensive solution for publishers to manage the complete life cycle of print books.  |
Information Today March 5, 2001 Barbara Quint |
Bowker for Sale, All or in Parts Reed Elsevier plans to sell off several of its major reference publishing operations, specifically Bowker...  |
The Motley Fool April 17, 2007 Steven Mallas |
Nielsen Cells Another Service In a society busy with entertainment, quality ratings data will turn out to be crucial. Nielsen's gauge of social-spot viewing habits should deliver some interesting insight into what all those eyeballs want to see.  |
Searcher December 2011 Charles Hamaker |
FEATURE: Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries While it might not matter to the occasional or recreational reader, the ebook presents a host of challenges for the role of the book as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage.  |
Information Today October 4, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest R.R. Bowker Acquires Syndetic Solutions... Library Groups Endorse Intellectual Property Declaration... Swets Launches SwetsWise Linker...  |
InternetNews June 24, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
Active Internet Users by Country, May 2004 The at-home global active Internet universe for a number of selected countries grew by roughly half a percentage point to more than 300 million users. Japan exhibited the most growth.  |
Information Today July 11, 2011 |
New Report on Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors A weakened economy, declining numbers of book buyers and the acceleration of ebooks seemingly combined to make 2010 one of the most challenging ever for the U.S. book industry.  |
InternetNews February 17, 2004 Janis Mara |
Study: E-Newsletter Readers Grow Itchy Trigger Fingers Is your website's newletter being read? Subscribers can find newsletters in crowded inboxes, but are more apt to delete if they're not specific or immediate, a report suggests.  |
Information Today March 10, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest Serials Solutions Signs Sales Agreement with R.R. Bowker... Google Introduces Content-Targeted Advertising Service... FluentMedia Partners with Financial Times for Global Content  |
Information Today December 3, 2013 Brandi Scardilli |
The News of 2013: The Year in Review The hot topics in the information industry for this year included ebooks, massive open online courses, and open access.  |
Information Today June 20, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Readex Announces Digital Edition of American Broadsides and Ephemera... Two More Linking Deals with Google Scholar... H.W. Wilson Data to Power Bowker's Book Analysis System...  |
Information Today April 9, 2015 |
ProQuest's Acquisition of SIPX Connects Libraries to the University Community ProQuest -- through its affiliate Bowker -- acquired digital course materials solution creator SIPX.  |