The information stored in the BookData/SAPnet database is supported by databases maintained by the international company, Nielsen BookData.

The most frequently asked questions by Publisher's regarding the Bibliographic Database are:
Q: What product is being added to the database?
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1. We add information from Subscribing Publishers (at a minimum cost) on new titles with all enhanced information.

2. We add only Basic bibliographic information at no cost (Basic Information (non-subscribing Publisher/Shortlisted))

Below are the various fields needed to list titles on the database for the two processes.
Information needed to list titles on the database.

Basic Information (non-subscribing Publisher)

1. ISBN  (10 / 13 digit)
2. Title (Main Title)
3. Edition
4. Author (Main Author)
5. Format (Binding)
6. Category (BIC)
7. Reading Age Min & Max
8. SA Price
9. Language
10. Publisher
11. Imprint
12. SA Distributor
13. Publication Date
14. Country of Publication size=2> 

1. ISBN (10 / 13 digit)
2. Title (Main Title, Sub Title, Part/Volume Number, Part/Volume Title)
3. Series
4. Edition
5. Author (Main Author, Editor, Composer, Translator, Photographer
6. Format (Binding)
7. Category (BIC)
8. SA Price
9. Language
10. Publisher
11. Imprint
12. SA Distributor
13. Country of Publication
14. Number of pages
15. Page Height
16. Page Width
17. Spine Width
18. Reading Age Min & Max
19. Short Description (300 Char)
20. Full Description
21. Contents
22. Stock Level
23. Front Cover Image (jpg format at least 100dpi)

Q: Methods of supplying data to SAPnet

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Q: How do we supply Jacket and Cover Images?

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Q: Does BDSAPnet list ISSN numbers on their database?

As you know, our database, and the products and services which it supports, is primarily a PRODUCT database, listing individually traded items that are sold by the Book trade. Primarily this means book product of course, but there are a number of associated or similar types of products that may also be routinely added to the database. In addition, there are some product types that may also be added at our discretion, provided they meet our main eligibility rules.

These rules are detailed in our listings policy, which can be found here.

The key aspect relating to this query is that a ‘product’ that is identified only by use of an ISSN, is actually not one single entity, but rather a work that appears in multiple entities, often in an ongoing sequence. For example, a journal called ‘Mathews Monthly’ could be identified with an ISSN as a single work, whereas in fact each monthly edition of the journal is a different production, with different contents and different characteristics, which would require different information in the bibliographic record to represent it. Each edition is therefore traded separately but cannot be identified separately. Clearly we cannot have an ever-changing single record, which is identified only by the ISSN identifier. As a result, we do not include records where an ISSN alone is used to identify the product.

It should be noted though that some book series have been allocated ISSN’s so that all books in the series can be identified as being part of the same ongoing work. Where each book is allocated a separate ISBN in addition to the ISSN, they can be added to the database as separate individual product records which all share the same ISSN identifier (and also the same Series Title)

Q:What is the difference between the Premier and BookWISE/World CD subscription?

The Premier product has to be used as a two-disk product - either with one disk cached in a hard drive and the other disk in the disk drive, or both disks cached. BookWISE/World CD is in fact two seperate disks (BookWISE and Compact) which do not work together - they are bundled together because they complement one another.

The Premier product is more comprehensive than the BookWISE/World CD. It was found that not everyone had the infrastructure capable of running the two-disk product, and we created the one disk product.

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