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Parent company Cambridge Information Group | | |
| Founded | 1868 | |
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| Founder | Frederick Leypoldt Company named after Richard Rogers Bowker, who acquired Leypoldt's business in 1878. | |
| Headquarters location | Chatham, New Jersey | |
| Key people | Beat Barblan, General Manager[1] | |
| Publication types | Books | |
| Official website | www | |
R. R. Bowker LLC (trading as Bowker) is an American limited liability company domiciled under
periodical titles. It provides supply chain services and analytical tools to the book publishing industry.[3] Bowker is headquartered in Chatham, New Jersey, with additional operational offices in England and Australia. It is now owned by Cambridge Information Group.[4]
History
The company was founded in New York City by
bibliographic information to make the book business more efficient. He established the monthly Literary Bulletin, his first periodical, in 1868. In 1870 Leypoldt issued the first edition of his Annual American Catalogue, the forerunner for Books in Print. In 1872 he published the first issue of Publishers Weekly, in 1873 the first Publishers' Uniform Trade-List Annual (later the Publishers Trade List Annual), and in 1876 the first issue of Library Journal. In 1878 Leypoldt's company was acquired by Richard Rogers Bowker. Leypoldt and Bowker also founded two influential standard book-industry references: Literary Marketplace and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.[5]
In 1967, the
Cahners Publishing Company.[6] In 1991, Reed's reference division moved to Chatham, New Jersey.[7] In 2001, Cambridge Information Group acquired Bowker.[8] After the sale, In 2007, Cambridge Information Group sold Literary Marketplace and other directories to Information Today Inc.[9] Cambridge Information Group merged Cambridge Scientific Abstracts with ProQuest Information and Learning to form ProQuest LLC, a privately held Delaware-domiciled limited liability company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. R. R. Bowker LLC was repositioned as an affiliate of ProQuest.[clarification needed][10]
Selected publications
- Books in Print lists nearly all books that are currently available in English and in the United States from major publishers. A resource for bookstores, libraries, and publishers, it is available in a print version, but is most often accessed electronically. Books in Print lists several million books, a number that is only exceeded by Amazon. It was first published in 1948.[citation needed]
- The Library and Book Trade Almanac (formerly The Bowker Annual) is a resource for librarians, publishers, and booksellers which provides reviews of "key trends, events, and developments" in the industry; statistics on book prices, numbers of books published, library expenditures, and average salaries; explanations of new legislation and changes in funding programs; and other information.[11]
Services
Bowker is the United States provider of
International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs), a code for identifying commercial books devised by Gordon Foster in 1967. An ISBN is currently placed on a book to uniquely identify it. ISBNs are available one at a time and in blocks up to 100,000 for a set fee.[12] ISBNs may be purchased and maintained at Bowker's My Identifiers website. Many countries, including the UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, to name a few, charge for ISBNs. Canada and Mexico provide ISBNs free of charge as their ISBN agencies are government funded.[13][14] Bowker USA charges $125 for one ISBN[15]
and offers substantial discounts on volume purchases.
See also
- List of academic databases and search engines
- American Architects Directory
- Robert Freeman Asleson (1935–2010), former president of R. R. Bowker
- Bowker's Law Books and Serials in Print
- Jacques Cattell
- Eric Moon (born 1923), former editor-in-chief of the Library Journal, a publication of R. R. Bowker
- Variety Film Reviews
- Who's Who in American Art
References
- ^ "Report from Bowker Shows Continuing Growth in Self-Publishing" PR Newswire (accessed January 4, 2022)
- ^ "Bowker Investigating Breach of ISBN Site". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved November 6, 2018.
- ISSN 0000-0019
- ^ "Bowker Moves Forward Under New Ownership". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
- OCLC 58646542
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
- ^ Mary H. Munroe (2004). "Cambridge Information Group Timeline". The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition. Archived from the original on October 20, 2014 – via Northern Illinois University.
- ProQuest 214842745.
- ^ ProQuest website — "Company history"
- ISSN 2150-5446
- ^ "Bowker's Andy Weissberg on ISBNs and the Future", by Joel Friedlander, The Book Designer, May 19, 2010, (accessed February 12, 2011)
- ^ Government of Canada. "ISBN Canada". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- ^ Government of Mexico. "Agencia Nacional ISBN México". Secretaria de Cultura. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- ^ "Purchase ISBNs". Bowker. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
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