Bowker’s ISBN agency websites hacked in Australia and US; credit card numbers compromised
Bowker, which trades in Australia as Thorpe-Bowker, is investigating ‘patterns of unauthorised charges’ to credit cards that have been used on Bowker’s MyIdentifiers websites, which are used to purchase ISBNs...
Over one million books self-published in the US in 2017
In the US, more than one million books were self-published in 2017, breaking the record for the the total number of titles self-published in a year, according to a report...
Delivering the goods: A look at the book industry’s supply chain
Getting a book into a reader’s hands has never been quicker, but there is still plenty of room for improvement in the book industry’s supply chain, writes Gary Copeland.Those who...
Amazon wins right to administer .book domain
Amazon has won the right to administer the .book domain name after eight contesting companies withdrew applications from the private auction run by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The Register reports that Amazon...
Self-publishing ‘beginning to mature’, according to Bowker report
In an analysis of US ISBN data, Bowker has revealed that 458,564 self-published titles were published in 2013, up 17% from 2012 and 437% from 2008. The growth is due entirely to...
Bowker reveals 422% increase in self-published titles since 2007
In an analysis of US ISBN data, Bowker has revealed that 391,000 self-published titles were published in 2012, which is an increase of 59% over 2011 and 422% over 2007....
Nielsen to acquire commerce, business intelligence services from R R Bowker
Nielsen has signed an agreement to acquire a range of commerce and business intelligence services in the US and UK from R R Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing owner Thorpe-Bowker....
Nielsen to acquire commerce, business intelligence services from R R Bowker
Nielsen has signed an agreement to acquire a range of commerce and business intelligence services from R R Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing owner Thorpe-Bowker. The two companies said in...
Bowker research: online retailers’ market share up 5% in US
In the US, online retailers led by Amazon earned 44% of the money spent on books in 2012, up from 39% in 2011 when Borders was still in operation, according to...
One third of US higher ed students admit to downloading course material illegally
In the US, the percentage of higher education students reporting that they had downloaded course material illegally has risen from 20% in 2010 to 34% in 2013, according to the...
Bowker research shows 20% of genre ebooks sold are self-published
Bowker Market Research has found that self-published titles accounted for more than 20% of crime, science fiction, romance and humour ebooks sold in the UK in 2012, reported the Guardian....
Bowker partners with Digi-Rights for US My Identifiers platform
In the US, Bowker is continuing to expand its My Identifiers platform with a new partnership with Digi-Rights. An online tool for small publishers and self-publishers to manage their rights...
Bowker launches SelfPublishedAuthor.com
In the US, Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing owner Thorpe-Bowker, has launched SelfPublishedAuthor.com, a website designed to help authors self-publish their work. The website, which says its aim is to ‘guide independent authors...
In brief
Search underway for Australia’s favourite librarian The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and the Love2Read campaign are calling for nominations for Australia’s Favourite Librarian. Members of the public are...
Bowker offers ebook creation and distribution via Vook
In the US, Bowker has partnered with Vook to offer ebook creation and distribution services on its My Identifers platform. In addition to accessing ISBN and metadata services on MyIdentifiers.com,...
Bowker launches ebook conversion service through My Identifiers
Self-publishers who are signed up to Bowker’s My Identifers platform in the US are now being offered an ebook conversion service through Data Conversion Laboratory’s (DCL) EPUB on Demand, reports...
Monash, Waimakairiri libraries offer ‘Book Psychic’ recommendation service
Monash Public Library Service in Melbourne and Waimakairiri Libraries in Kaiapoi New Zealand are the first local library services to offer a new product from Bowker’s LibraryThing called Book Psychic....
Australia objects to Amazon’s application for .book
Australia has lodged a complaint against Amazon EU’s application for the .book internet domain, which is says restricts other entities from using the same domain and could have a ‘negative...
Disruption to Books in Print, TitlePage caused by Hurricane Sandy
Books in Print, TitlePage and several other data services hosted by Bowker in the US (the parent company of Thorpe-Bowker in Australia) have been disrupted by Hurricane Sandy, which has...
Book discovery in the online age not as digital as you might think
Two new consumer reports from Bowker, parent company of Bookseller+Publisher, look at how book buyers are discovering the books they purchase in the digital age. In the US, the most...