Bowker
Bowker ranks as the world’s leading source of bibliographic information. Since its founding in 1872, public, academic, research and government libraries have relied on Bowker’s wide range of reference and reporting products and services. Publishers and booksellers depend upon Bowker’s supply chain services and the information that drives their transactions on a daily basis.
- Bowker® is the exclusive ISBN agency for the United States and Puerto Rico.
- Thorpe-Bowker, a Bowker division, is the Australian and New Zealand ISBN agency.
- Books In Print®, the company’s flagship product, is available on the Web, on CD-ROM, in hardbound print format and in a raw data format.
- Global Books In Print®, the largest bibliographic database in the world, contains more than 16 million book, audio book, and video titles available from 43 different markets worldwide.
- Pubnet® and PubEasy® allow booksellers to trade and exchange documents directly with publishers through EDI or over the web.
- Monument Information Resource™ (MIR) provides quality market intelligence to higher education textbook publishers.
- PubTrack™ provides business intelligence tools and services for publishers, wholesalers, and distributors.
- AquaBrowser® is the leading library catalog search tool that is used by nearly 2,000 libraries worldwide.
- Syndetic Solutions™ provides bibliographic data to enhance library online catalogs, serving up more than 10 million individual content items.
- Resources for College Libraries™, produced in collaboration with the ALA, provides core lists to academic libraries in print, online and data formats.