Data Submission for Large Presses
No charge for enhanced discoverability
Providing Bowker® details about your title allows us to:
We encourage you to contact us for a personal conversation regarding your data feed at bip.bowkerlink@bowker.com.
Learn more about our customers and file testing process here. Participate Now
Getting started is easy, see the steps outlined below:
Each new data feed will be reviewed for quality and put through our testing process. Together with you, we will ensure that it meets industry specifications and allows for any unique information you may have above these standards. You will be assigned an account manager to work with you through this process. The result is clean data within Bowker’s database and, in turn, any customer databases.
To submit your first data file, please e-mail data.submission@bowker.com or datasubmission@bowker.co.uk
Upgrading Your Data
If you are already a data provider to Bowker, we are interested in working with you on our other free initiatives. You can find information specific to educational and academic publishers, eBook data and our full content indexing program on this website.
Program Benefits
Bowker licenses and creates content to add to the metadata you supply for your titles including:
Our product users--a dedicated audience of book buyers and readers--effectively extend your marketing reach, while you pay nothing to submit your data to Bowker.
Bowker’s Products
Bowker Syndetic Solutions™, a web service for library catalog enrichment, experiences this level of volume from >100 million users with over 3 billion hits a month.
Bowker Syndetic Solutions gives libraries more than 40 million unique descriptive data elements relating to books, audio books, and multimedia, and offers more than 25 content enrichment elements to choose from, including cover images, tables of contents, video and music content and profiles, new media clips, and exclusive reviews from The New York Times and other national publications. Content is available in 5 languages.
Bowker Syndetic Solutions is used by public, academic, school, and specialist libraries throughout the world.
Bowker Books In Print® offers retailers, librarians, and school systems information on what is being published, reviewed, and noticed. Books In Print data is integrated into customer systems, such as point of sale and purchase order systems, which allows buyers to make decisions on new title purchases.
Bowker Books In Print database offers valuable information on more than 7.5 million U.S. book, audio book, and video titles, as well as 12 million international titles, making it the industry’s largest bibliographic database. Available in web and print formats, this indispensable resource for booksellers, publishers, and librarians also offers: reviews; tables of contents; full-text previews; cover images; author biographies; awards information; annotations; and much more.
Bowker Books In Print is also made available to customers for uploading into their purchase order workflow system. Web service calls mean this data can also be retrieved from Bowker on an ISBN by ISBN basis and loaded to a customer’s own content management system. About Bowker
Bowker is the world's leading provider of bibliographic information and management solutions designed to help publishers, booksellers, and libraries better serve their customers. Creators of products and services that make books easier for people to discover, evaluate, order, and experience, the company also generates research and resources for publishers, helping them understand and meet the interests of readers worldwide. Bowker, an affiliated business of ProQuest and the official ISBN Agency for the United States and its territories, is headquartered in New Providence, New Jersey with additional operations in England and Australia.
No charge for enhanced discoverabilityProviding Bowker® details about your title allows us to:
- Provide metadata for newly published titles to over 10K retailers, libraries, and schools
- Increase awareness of your titles to our wide user base of dedicated readers and buyers
- Display enhanced content such as cover images and marketing descriptions to over 100M readers
- Communicate price and status updates in a timely fashion to multiple customers
We encourage you to contact us for a personal conversation regarding your data feed at bip.bowkerlink@bowker.com.
Learn more about our customers and file testing process here. Participate Now
Getting started is easy, see the steps outlined below:
- Choose ONIX or Excel for your data submission
- Submit your cover images
- Over time you may increase the amount of data you send to Bowker, we suggest focusing on Enhanced Content
Each new data feed will be reviewed for quality and put through our testing process. Together with you, we will ensure that it meets industry specifications and allows for any unique information you may have above these standards. You will be assigned an account manager to work with you through this process. The result is clean data within Bowker’s database and, in turn, any customer databases.
To submit your first data file, please e-mail data.submission@bowker.com or datasubmission@bowker.co.uk
Upgrading Your Data
If you are already a data provider to Bowker, we are interested in working with you on our other free initiatives. You can find information specific to educational and academic publishers, eBook data and our full content indexing program on this website.
Bowker licenses and creates content to add to the metadata you supply for your titles including:
- Full Text Reviews
- Review citations
- Author Biographies
- Bestseller lists
- Media mentions
- Awards
- Keywords with contexts
- Barnes & Noble
- Follett College Stores
- Chapters/Indigo
- Abebooks.com
- Hastings
- Sony
Our product users--a dedicated audience of book buyers and readers--effectively extend your marketing reach, while you pay nothing to submit your data to Bowker.
Bowker’s Products
Bowker Syndetic Solutions™, a web service for library catalog enrichment, experiences this level of volume from >100 million users with over 3 billion hits a month.
Bowker Syndetic Solutions gives libraries more than 40 million unique descriptive data elements relating to books, audio books, and multimedia, and offers more than 25 content enrichment elements to choose from, including cover images, tables of contents, video and music content and profiles, new media clips, and exclusive reviews from The New York Times and other national publications. Content is available in 5 languages.
Bowker Syndetic Solutions is used by public, academic, school, and specialist libraries throughout the world.
Bowker Books In Print® offers retailers, librarians, and school systems information on what is being published, reviewed, and noticed. Books In Print data is integrated into customer systems, such as point of sale and purchase order systems, which allows buyers to make decisions on new title purchases.
Bowker Books In Print database offers valuable information on more than 7.5 million U.S. book, audio book, and video titles, as well as 12 million international titles, making it the industry’s largest bibliographic database. Available in web and print formats, this indispensable resource for booksellers, publishers, and librarians also offers: reviews; tables of contents; full-text previews; cover images; author biographies; awards information; annotations; and much more.
Bowker Books In Print is also made available to customers for uploading into their purchase order workflow system. Web service calls mean this data can also be retrieved from Bowker on an ISBN by ISBN basis and loaded to a customer’s own content management system. About Bowker
Bowker is the world's leading provider of bibliographic information and management solutions designed to help publishers, booksellers, and libraries better serve their customers. Creators of products and services that make books easier for people to discover, evaluate, order, and experience, the company also generates research and resources for publishers, helping them understand and meet the interests of readers worldwide. Bowker, an affiliated business of ProQuest and the official ISBN Agency for the United States and its territories, is headquartered in New Providence, New Jersey with additional operations in England and Australia.