With the summer in full swing & changes afoot at BNC, we are looking to quickly fill this position on the BookNet Canada Dream Team:

• Database Guru

To apply, please send your cover letter and resume to jobs@booknetcanada.ca. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

The book industry is at a stage of rapid evolution and here at BNC, we're intrigued by the innovators who are finding ways to take challenges and turn them into opportunities. We want to know what shapes their decisions, what they think is most important now and where they see the industry headed.

Because we didn't think we would be the only ones interested, we've created BNC TV - Interviews with Industry Innovators. Our first interview is with Neelan Choksi of Lexcycle, the creators of Stanza.

Watch BNC TV Here...

BookNet Canada announced today the departure of Michael Tamblyn as President and CEO effective June 25, 2009. Michael Tamblyn was the founding CEO of BookNet Canada, Canada’s book industry supply chain and technology innovation agency, in March 2003.

The BookNet Canada Board of Directors has appointed Noah Genner, BNC's former Director of Technology, as CEO.

Read the whole press release here...

For more information, please contact Morgan Cowie at mcowie@booknetcanada.ca

Catalogue 2.0 Committee

From the Book Industry Study Group

The first 979-prefixed ISBN registration group element, 979-10, has been assigned to the Paris-based French National ISBN Agency, AFNIL, according to a special announcement today by the International ISBN Agency. The global book industry is encouraged to pay attention to this news: it will lead to the appearance of the first 979-prefix ISBNs in the international book supply chain.

Commenting on the announcement, Michael Healy, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group and the former Chairman of the ISO working group that revised the ISBN standard, said, “This is an important announcement for the U.S. book trade. Any systems remaining in the U.S. book trade that process only the last ten digits of an ISBN will have to be updated to avoid the possibility of duplicates of 978 and 979-prefixed ISBNs appearing in our supply chain.”

For more information, please email us at biblio@booknetcanada.ca

eBook sales statistics for March 2009 have been released from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) who collects these statistics in conjunction with the IDPF.

Trade eBook sales were $10,000,000 for March, a 110.4 % increase over March 2008 ($ 4,700,000) Calendar Year to Date sales are up 131% over last year.