OVERVIEW

As the exclusive U.S. ISBN and SAN Agency, Bowker® receives the most authoritative title and publisher information available, making it the world's leading source for bibliographic information.  Bowker has been providing unbiased bibliographic information to libraries since its founding in 1872. 

Books In Print® debuted in 1948 as the index to the Publisher’s Trade Annual.  A CD version came along in 1986 and BooksInPrint.com™ was launched in 1999. In 2007, Bowker acquired Medialab Solutions, the creator of AquaBrowser™, the world leader in visual faceted searching, which offers a revolutionary search front-end for over 250 libraries worldwide.

Now Bowker has created the next generation of BooksInPrint.com; one that will:

• combine the rich bibliographic content from Bowker with the rich visual discovery experience of AquaBrowser;
• embrace “Web 2.0” by adding a wealth of social features to BooksInPrint.com with My Discoveries, and incorporating millions of tags, ratings, and reviews from LibraryThing users;
• integrate BooksInPrint.com/GlobalBooksInPrint.com with Fiction Connection and Non-Fiction Connection;
• incorporate new search and discovery technologies, while maintaining all of the familiar library searching and workflow tools;
• revolutionize the way you discover information about books.