Member Endorsements - Book Industry Communication Skip to content BIC members span the full book industry supply chain, united by a shared commitment to efficiency, sustainability, and collaboration. By joining, organisations gain a trusted platform to influence standards and best practice, while benefiting from collective expertise. Here’s what our members say about the value of BIC. BIC is unique in looking after the interests of so many sectors, from publishers to booksellers to libraries, and is a rare example of an industry’s various sectors working together closely. As a result, the book industry has greatly benefitted from BIC’s stewardship of supply chain challenges over the years. BIC makes the UK book industry much greater than the sum of its parts Taylor & Francis Group BIC membership is key to our engagement with the wider publishing supply chain to ensure efficiencies are realised. Active participation in BIC projects ensures we can influence change and keep abreast of new developments that directly impact our business. Ingram Content Group BIC brings order out of chaos – it is an invaluable organisation for the business of selling books. The Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom & Ireland Ltd Accurate and timely product information keeps our supply chain moving. Working in collaboration with BIC, Mare Nostrum Group is helping its distributed publishers understand the importance of metadata with succinct, easily understood best practice guidelines Mare Nostrum Group BIC is important to MDL because effecting positive change to the book industry supply chain with other organisations is paramount and some things can only be changed together Macmillan Distribution (MDL) Manage Cookie Consent To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions. Functional Functional Always active The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Preferences Preferences The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user. Statistics Statistics The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. Marketing Marketing The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes View preferences {title} {title} {title}