Dominique Raccah

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Opening Statement

• Dominique Raccah
• President CEO, Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Co-Chair, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.

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Agenda Part 1
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Agenda Part 2
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Approval of the Minutes

• Approval of the minutes of the
• Annual Meeting of Members 2006.

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A Year in Review 2006-2007

• Michael Healy
• Executive Director
• Book Industry Study Group, Inc.

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Key Messages 2006-2007
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Growing Membership
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Welcome!
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Farewells (some temporary!)
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Strong Finances 2006-2007

• Budgeted deficit of 8,800
• Recognition of lengthy transition
• Exceptional one-off transition costs
• Surplus of 85,500
• Assets of nearly 600,000
• Slight year-on-year reduction in income
• Continued prudent cost management

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Strong Finances 2006-2007
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Budget 2007-2008

• Budgeted income growth of 11
• Budgeted surplus reduced to 30,000
• Emphasis on infrastructure investment
• Website re-design
• IT equipment
• Disaster recovery processes

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BISG Activities 2006-2007
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Publications 2006-2007

• 30th Edition
• Launched at BookExpo 2007
• Print and PDF versions
• Extensive media coverage

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Publications 2006-2007

• BISAC Subject Headings
• 2007 Edition
• Major sections revised
• Bibles (ECPA CBA)
• Graphic novels

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Publications 2006-2007

• BISG Policy Statement 0701
• Elimination of dual identifiers
• Extensive industry consultation
• Public support from
• AAP, PMA, ECPA
• ABA, CBA
• GS1 US

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BISG Events 2006-2007

• Supply Chain 101
• TRENDS 2007 A First Look
• RFID in Bookstores
• The Environment the Book Trade
• Using Emerging Technology

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BISG Events 2006-2007

• ALA Conference 2007
• Collaboration with NISO
• Changing Standards Landscape
• Publishers and librarians
• Challenges of digital technology

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New Programs

• Digital Issues
• Product description (ONIX)
• Product identification
• Standards for search and retrieval
• Certification
• Product information
• Product labels
• Environmental benchmarking

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Committee Reports
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BISAC Committees

• Wendell Lotz
• VP of Product Database Development
• Ingram Book Group

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BISAC Committees

• Standards policy development
• The work ahead

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Standards Policy Development

• BISAC Subject Headings 2007 Edition
• BISG Policy Statement POL-0701
• Certification for senders of metadata

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The Work Ahead

• Certification for receivers of metadata
• Guidelines for identifying electronic fragments
• More detailed bar coding guidelines
• Best practices for X12 EDI
• Individual usage notes for each BISAC Subject
  Heading
• ONIX 3.0

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BISG Committees

• Digital Standards
• Product Label Certification
• EAN Transition Website
• ASN Development
• ISBN-13
• Environmental Benchmarking

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Digital Standards

• Digital Standards Committee
• AAPs Digital Issues Working Group
• First meeting held in June 2007
• Online discovery, browsing, search, and
  distribution of content in digital form

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Product Label Certification

• Distribution Executive Interest Group
• Guidelines for Shipping Container Labeling
• Encourage and support widespread adoption of the
  recommended Product Label
• Reduce in-house certification expertise required
  of recipients
• Reduce number of certification processes to which
  a shipper must submit Product Labels

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EAN Transition Website

• EAN Transition Taskforce

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ASN Development

• Manufacturing Executives Interest Group
• Guidelines for the Advance Ship Notice
• Simplify the capturing of data at all stages of
  shipping, warehousing and receiving physical
  product

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ISBN-13

• ISBN-13 Taskforce
• Launch of ISBN-13 in January 2007
• First 979 ISBNs in Q1 2008
• Mixed industry reaction

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Environmental Benchmarking
Research Committee
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Benchmarking Sponsors
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Benchmarking Timeline
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Key Messages 2006-2007
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A Tribute to Jan Nathan

• Florrie Kichler
• Board President
• PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Assoc.
• Dominique Raccah
• President CEO
• Sourcebooks, Inc.

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Audited Financial Statement

• John McParland
• CPA - Audit Partner
• McGladrey Pullen, LLC

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Election of Directors

• Michael Healy
• Executive Director
• Book Industry Study Group, Inc.

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Election of BISG Directors

• Officers
• Officers Term expires September 2008
• Co-Chair Andrew Weber Random House
• Co-Chair Dominique Raccah Sourcebooks
• Vice-Chair Kelley Maier Ingram Book Group
• Treasurer David Walker American Booksellers
  Association
• Secretary Deborah Wiley John Wiley Sons
• To be elected during the BISG Annual Meeting
  of Members 2007

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Election of BISG Directors

• Class 3 Directors
• Class 3 Directors Term expires September 2010
• Gary Aiello. RR Bowker
• Anne Lloyd Davies Simon Schuster
• Sally Dedecker Sally Dedecker Enterprises
• Ted Hill THA Consulting
• Tina Jordan Association of American
  Publishers
• George Lossius Publishing Technology
• Rick Schwartz HarperCollins Publishers
• Jean Srnecz Baker Taylor
• To be elected during the BISG Annual Meeting
  of Members 2007

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A Word From Our Sponsor

• Mike Irving
• Vice President of Publishing

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Coffee Break
Presentations will continue at 1100 a.m.