------ Forwarded Message From: Michael Healy <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:49:47 -0500 To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 ------ End of Forwarded Message