What are BIC Bites?
BIC Bites are a series of short papers on topics of interest to BIC members. They are written by industry experts and rigorously reviewed and checked by BIC Committee members and other BIC member volunteers.
It is BIC’s intention to build and continually develop a comprehensive library of BIC Bites on a wide variety of book industry supply chain topics.
24) Introduction to GPSR (updated Jan 2026, next review Jan 2028)
23) Introduction to EUDR (updated 19th Dec 2025, next review May 2026)
22) Assigning a new ISBN vs keeping the original ISBN (reviewed Aug 2025, next review Aug 2027)
21) Comparison of BIC Realtime for Libraries & Library Communications Framework (LCF)
20) Introduction to the Library Communications Framework (LCF)
19) Weights & Dimensions Best Practice in Metadata
18) Publishing rights, Distribution and Sales rights in metadata (reviewed Aug 2025, next review Aug 2027)
17) Migrating from ONIX 2 to ONIX 3 (reviewed Aug 2025,next review Aug 2027)
16) Introduction to UK Standard Library Categories (UKSLC) (reviewed Aug 2025, next review Aug 2027)
15) Introduction to Thema for Booksellers ((reviewed Aug 2025, next review Aug 2027)
14) Introduction to Thema (updated November 2025)
13) Introduction to the International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
12) Introduction to Pricing in ONIX (reviewed Aug 2025, next review Aug 2027)
11) Introduction to Pallets (reviewed Jan 2026)
10) Introduction to ONIX (reviewed Aug 2025, next review Aug 2027)
9) Introduction to Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestments
8) Introduction to ISNI (updated Aug2025, next review Aug 2027)
7) Introduction to EDItX Reporting Formats (reviewed August 2025,next review Aug 2027)
6) Introduction to BIC Basic Metadata (reviewed Aug 2025,next review Aug 2027)
5) EU VAT Changes to Digital Services
4) Choosing Keywords for Discoverability (reviewed Aug 2025, next review Aug 2027)
3) Book Industry Returns Initiative (reviewed Aug 2025, next review Aug 2027)
2) BIC Realtime for Libraries (reviewed Jan 2026, next review Jan 2028)
1) BIC Realtime (reviewed Jan 2026,next review Jan 2028)
More BIC Bites will be produced in due course so watch this space.
If you have a topic that you would like to see a BIC Bite produced on, please get in touch: on 020 4551 1570 or contact us.
We hope you find this series of documents useful and informative.
BIC would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the writing, validating, and testing of these documents.