On Thursday 12th March 2020, I listened in to the Building a Greener Business webinar. Organised by Book Industry Communication (BIC), it was reorganised online at the last moment due to the cancellation of the London Book Fair. Although the situation with the Coronavirus has evolved so rapidly in the last ten days that what…
BIC’s Director of Marketing Strategy provides an overview of this seminar-turned-webinar. The cancellation of LBF 20 did not deter BIC who were due to run a seminar on Building a Greener Business on March 12. Upon receiving the sad news of the cancellation, the BIC team leapt into action to reschedule the already popular event…
PRH, Hachette, Waterstones and others contribute to LBF event, transferred online The Book Industry Communication (BIC) seminar Building a Greener Business, due to have taken place at the London Book Fair on the morning of Thursday 12th March 2020, was quickly and successfully convened as an online seminar instead, with the same speakers and programme….
.. I’m not talking about the book by Hilary Clinton here, instead this was the title of the recent BIC Breakfast on Acquisitions and Divestments in the Book Industry. This event aimed to demystify the process by which one organisation’s assets are transferred to another company, and it did this by providing a high-level overview…
The latest BIC Breakfast, sponsored by Penguin Random House (PRH) and held at the Poetry Café in London yesterday, looked at changing Thema codes to boost discoverability of inclusive and diverse books. Andrew Isabirye, a Data Scientist at PRH, revealed the work that the company has been doing to address this issue by investigating how the Thema codes could…
In the UK we are becoming increasingly concerned about climate change and more and more of us are thinking about how we might take some responsibility for making our world greener. I attended the BIC (Book Industry Communication) Breakfast to hear about what’s happening in the publishing industry.Carnstone’s Book Chain Project speakers outlined how they’ve…
“I have a deep and enduring relationship with all things administrative” In recent years, the selling of rights has changed dramatically. The growing number of available book formats and delivery options, plus the expansion of global market opportunities, have all facilitated an increase in the value of rights income. The sale of physical books and…
The absolutely stunning Stationers’ Hall was the setting for the New Trends in Publishing Seminar 2016, hosted by BIC and sponsored by Nielsen Book and Ricoh. Being entirely new to the publishing industry, I felt slightly nervous as I walked into the opulent old rooms of the hall, which were filled with beautiful furniture, lavish…
We were fortunate enough to attend a really interesting BIC event on New Trends in Publishing at Stationer’s Hall – great talks from Nielsen, DAISY, Ingrams, Ingenta, and Harbottle & Lewis on aspects covering consumer rights (with Brexit looming) to augmented reality, to the critical importance of accuracy when supplying metadata. We all know consumer…
As promised last week, we’ll focus this time on the impact that New Trends in Publishing (#bicnewtrends @BIC1UK) can have on production departments and suppliers such as printers. Mike Levaggi is Group Production Director at HarperCollins and he came to the BIC Seminar to tell us a bit more about the digital print revolution. Publishing is changing, I…