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Welcome
According to current figures less than 6% of UK publishers are accredited by Book Industry Communication
(BIC). Less than 3% have the top accreditation.
What does this mean? Quite simply, if your company is not on the accreditation list, you’re losing sales.
Ward McCandlish has achieved a BIC accreditation for six client publishers. Three of these publishers were
given (and maintained) the top award: BIC Excellence Plus.
Who are we?
Established in 2004, Ward McCandlish is a specialist bibliographic data management company that collates
and delivers client publishers' bibliographic data to data aggregators, consumer websites, wholesalers and
distributors.
We supply a cost-effective service that ensures our clients'
bibliographic data meets the industry standards as set by BIC, meeting
the requirements of booksellers and therefore helping to increase the
sales of our clients' titles.
Our clients range from smaller companies publishing two books a year
to larger organisations publishing over 500 titles a year.
We've developed our own ONIX system, fully tested and approved by
both Nielsen and Bowker. We now supply a regular ONIX data feed to
Nielsen, Bowker, BDS, Amazon, Google, Kobo and Gardners along with
overseas distributors and sales agents. Our system also allows us to
supply customised files for use on our clients' websites.
Based in Somerset, we have over 45 years combined experience in the
UK book trade, both in publishing and bookselling.