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.
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.
BIC brings order out of chaos – it is an invaluable organisation for the business of selling books.
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.
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.