Member Endorsements

BIC members span the full book industry supply chain, united by a shared commitment to efficiency, sustainability, and collaboration. By joining, organisations gain a trusted platform to influence standards and best practice, while benefiting from collective expertise. Here’s what our members say about the value of BIC.

  • BIC is unique in looking after
    the interests of so many sectors,
    from publishers to booksellers to
    libraries, and is a rare example of an
    industry’s various sectors working
    together closely. As a result, the
    book industry has greatly benefitted
    from BIC’s stewardship of supply
    chain challenges over the years. BIC
    makes the UK book industry much
    greater than the sum of its parts
    .
    Taylor & Francis Group
  • BIC membership is key to our
    engagement with the wider
    publishing supply chain to ensure
    efficiencies are realised. Active
    participation in BIC projects ensures
    we can influence change and keep
    abreast of new developments
    that
    directly impact our business.
    Ingram Content Group
  • Booksellers Association logo
    BIC brings order out of chaos – it is an invaluable organisation for the business of selling books.
    The Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom & Ireland Ltd
  • Mare Nostrum Group logo
    Accurate and timely product information keeps our supply chain moving. Working in collaboration with BIC, Mare Nostrum Group is helping its distributed publishers understand the importance of metadata with succinct, easily understood best practice guidelines.
    Mare Nostrum Group
  • BIC is important to MDL because effecting positive change to the book industry supply chain with other organisations is paramount and some things can only be changed together.
    Macmillan Distribution (MDL)