The Identification of Digital Book Content from BISG

The Book Industry Study Group, Inc. has just published a new discussion document on how digital publications should be identified. The document, The Identification of Digital Book Content, was commissioned jointly by the Book Industry Study Group and Book Industry Communication in the UK and written by Michael Holdsworth, an industry consultant who was formerly Managing Director (UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa) of Cambridge University Press. The Identification of Digital Book Content is intended to stimulate debate in the book industry about how digital book content should be identified and to encourage further work on the development and implementation of identification standards and best practices for such content