Presentation by Fanny Thpot, Systems Manager, Berg Publishers

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BIC initiatives and Berg
Presentation by Fanny Thépot, Systems Manager,
Berg Publishers E4Books BIC Seminar Bristol
February 2008
www.bergpublishers.com
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Berg

• Founded in 1980 as an academic publisher in
  German History, Politics and Anthropology
• Has grown publishing areas in Anthropology,
  Fashion, Cultural and Media Studies, Film, Food,
  Design, Interior Design, Textiles, Visual Culture
• Publishing Programme textbooks, monographs,
  reference, journals, e-publishing
• Three distribution lines Fairchild Books,
  Seagull Books, Left Coast Press

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Systems

• 2000-2004 creation and implementation of Access
  database for customer and bibliographical data
• 2004 Implementation of Focus-on-Publishing.
  Direct feeds to website, catalogues, key
  customers.
• October 2004 First ONIX feeds to Nielsen Book
  Data
• January 2005 First ONIX feeds to Bowker
• March 2006 Gold Product Data Excellence Award
  (BIC)
• January 2008 E4books accreditation

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E4books

• Team work between Orca Book Services,
  Focus-on-Publishing and Berg
• Both our distributor and our information
  management system are E4books accredited.
• Both have built-in electronic data interchange
  systems for e-trade
• Daily product information supply and updates from
  Orca and Berg

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Benefits

• Provides rich and accurate information to
  customers, reps and agents without delay
• Builds up trust with partners and customers
• Direct benefit to sales growth
• Proactive role in the development of Book
  Industry Standards