Page last updated 24th July 2020
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.
The first five BIC Bites were launched in 2014 however more have been launched since, as follows (in alphabetical order):
1) BIC Realtime
2) BIC Realtime for Libraries NEW for January 2020
3) Book Industry Returns Initiative Review 2018
4) Choosing Keywords for Discoverability
5) EU VAT Changes to Digital Services
6) Introduction to BIC Basic Metadata
7) Introduction to EDItX Reporting Formats NEW for July 2020
9) Introduction to Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestments NEW for November 2019
11) Introduction to Pallets NEW for December 2019
12) Introduction to the International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
14) Introduction to Thema for Booksellers NEW for July 2020
15) Introduction to UK Standard Library Categories (UKSLC) NEW for November 2019
16) Migrating from ONIX 2 to ONIX 3
17) Publishing Rights, Sales Rights & Distribution Rights in Metadata
18) Weights & Dimensions Best Practice in Metadata NEW for December 2019
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: either call the BIC office on 020 7255 0513/6 or email: info@bic.org.uk
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.
