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Web resource connects indie publishers with advice and resources tailored to their needs NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest affiliate Bowker® has launched a new web resource to guide independent authors to success. SelfPublishedAuthor.com offers tools, advice, and resources for navigating the publishing process, serving a burgeoning market of authors who are bypassing the traditional publishing route to take total control of their book projects. (Logo:...
Link from MyIdentifiers to Smith will introduce authors to essential support NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest affiliate Bowker® is expanding resources available to authors and small publishers on its MyIdentifiers.com website by teaming with Smith Publicity, widely recognized as one of the industry's top book publicity agencies. Now, MyIdentifiers.com will include a link to Smith's website where authors and publishers can take the first steps in exploring...
NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The number of self-published books produced annually in the U.S. has nearly tripled, growing 287 percent since 2006, and now tallies more than 235,000 print and "e" titles, according to a new analysis of data from Bowker® Books In Print and Bowker® Identifier Services. The research explores the dramatic U.S. growth of an area once relegated to the fringes of publishing. It finds that while production increases are occurring in...
NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Bowker, a leading global provider of bibliographic information solutions and services, has reached an agreement with Google to provision and facilitate the assignment of ISBN numbers to Google Editions, Google's digital book offering launching later in 2010. The agreement sets an important publishing industry precedent, helping to ensure a standards-driven framework for the identification of digital and print-on-demand book products made...
