Page last updated 16th June 2021
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 and many more have been added since, as follows (in alphabetical order):
1) BIC Realtime
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
9) Introduction to Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestments
12) Introduction to Pricing in ONIX New for November 2020
13) Introduction to the International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
15) Introduction to Thema for Booksellers
16) Introduction to UK Standard Library Categories (UKSLC)
17) Migrating from ONIX 2 to ONIX 3
18) Publishing Rights, Sales Rights & Distribution Rights in Metadata
19) Weights & Dimensions Best Practice in Metadata
20) Introduction to the Library Communications Framework (LCF)
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 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.
