Bowker helps authors self publish, and distribute their work.

They offers tools, advice, and resources to help authors through the publishing process.

Bowker is the official ISBN agency in the US and Australia, helping authors taking the publishing process into their own hands, and providing help when needed.

At SelfPublishedAuthor.com, the give industry advice and perspective to help authors avoid common pitfalls and publish their books successfully.

For a little history of the Bowker ‘phenomenon’ in the book world…

“All but invisible to the readers who depend upon it but more central than ever to publishers, booksellers, and libraries, bibliographic information has been an industry within an industry since the nineteenth century.”

Dip your toes into the beginnings of the American book-retail automation system, from ISBN, and Dewy Library systems, to modern self publishing, and now internet-based, organised-knowledge - check out this historical review :-

R.R. Bowker: From Mugwump to Metadata

“Out of any chaos, out of any darkness, there will shine the dawning light of a new day.”

Richard Rogers Bowker, at the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus’ public dedication and keynote address ceremony, in 1920.