Welcome toMaking Information Pay 2010

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Show me the data

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Creating a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry supply chain for both physical and digital products.

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Creating a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry supply chain for both physical and digital products.

BISG is committed to the development of effective industry-

wide standards, best practices, research and events that enhance relationships between trading partners.

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Improving the ratio of signal-to-noise in the book industry

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The way we work

“For too long business leaders have relied on

their intuition or their ‘golden gut’ to make decisions. For too long, important calls have been based not on data, but on the experience and unaided judgment of the decision maker.” ~Tom Davenport

Data and analysis drives better decisions and improved performance

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Linear, linked, transparent, navigable, one dimensional

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The supply chain

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To become the book industry leadership organization in a time of great transformation by helping to build and support a new industry network enabling new opportunities for profitable growth.

BISG’sVision Statement

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Illustration taken from:

The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension

by Clifford A. Pickover, Sterling Publishing

The puzzle we’re now solving…

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Consumer empowerment

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• Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading

• Product data certification

• Developing a specification for rights expression

• Sales reporting of digital and print products

• Best practices for employing identifiers for e-books

• Understanding consumer-empowered symbology

• Best practices for SEO, SEM

• Best practices for tagging and indexing book content

• Developing frameworks for managing content as data

• Understanding Print on Demand

• Best practices for assigning an on sale date

And that’s just for starters…

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Working out the puzzle

Now, on with the show!

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