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From: Michael Healy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:49:47 -0500
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Subject: The Identification of Digital Book Content

          BISG PUBLISHES NEW DISCUSSION DOCUMENT:  ³THE IDENTIFICATION OF
DIGITAL BOOK CONTENT².     The Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) has
just published a new discussion document on how digital publications should
be identified.  The document, The Identification of Digital Book Content,
was commissioned jointly by the Book Industry Study Group and Book Industry
Communication in the UK and written by Michael Holdsworth, an industry
consultant who was formerly Managing Director (UK, Europe, Middle East and
Africa) of Cambridge University Press. The Identification of Digital Book
Content is intended to stimulate debate in the book industry about how
digital book content should be identified and to encourage further work on
the development and implementation of identification standards and best
practices for such content.   The complete document is freely available to
everyone online at the BISG web site:
http://www.bisg.org/docs/DigitalIdentifiers_07Jan08.pdf
<http://www.bisg.org/docs/DigitalIdentifiers_07Jan08.pdf> .  BISG welcomes
feedback from those interested in the issues addressed in the document.
Please send comments and questions to [log in to unmask]  The
BISAC Identification Committee, chaired by Laura Dawson, will be
coordinating work in this area going forward and will use any feedback
received in its future work on best practices.
   BISG encourages members to participate in the organization through its
many committees. Please e-mail Karen Forster, at [log in to unmask] for more
information.   The Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG)  is a
not-for-profit research and technology standards organization whose members
come from every sector of the publishing community. BISG is a forum for
managing change and enabling interaction among publishers, booksellers,
librarians, wholesalers, manufacturers, authors, and suppliers. For more
information, visit www.bisg.org <http://www.bisg.org/> .   This BISG
Bulletin *Extra* is currently being distributed to all BISG members. Please
feel free to forward it.    The BISG Bulletin *Extra* has been created by
the BISG office. To offer suggestions, comments, corrections and
contributions for future issues of the Bulletin or to unsubscribe, contact
Karen Forster at [log in to unmask]   Copyright © 2007 Book Industry Study
Group, Inc. 370 Lexington Avenue, Suite 900 New York, NY 10017

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