Bibliographic Data Services Ltd
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The BDS Group
BDS offers the best information-rich data on books and home entertainment releases, comprehensive web development and maintenance services, and state of the art web-based applications on media to retailers, e-tailers, publishers, libraries, charities and government bodies.
BDS has an ever-increasing portfolio of products designed to engage your customers and generate sales. Through continuous research and innovation allied to an insistence on quality, BDS keeps your business or public service at the forefront of data use and management. Work with BDS and discover what data can do for you in terms of effectiveness, increased sales and savings. BDS continues to change the face of data content and provision, quality and flexibility for its clients around the world.
BDS has successfully secured the contract to supply data for the British Library’s Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) Programme in a joint bid with Nielsen Book. Continue Reading...
More NewsBooks & Media, the comprehensive online reference and analysis tool from BDS, has been selected by Arts Council England to be made available to English public libraries via its Reference Online service.Books & Media is both an invaluable back-room aid for stock selection and supplier selection analysis and a customer facing resource that allows librarians and library users to keep abreast of all books featured and reviewed in the UK press, TV, radio, film and internet. Continue Reading...
Many libraries find Books & Media - www.booksandmedia.co.uk - an indespensable tool. It aids title selection and helps gauge the relevance of supplier selected titles, as well as being the most comprehensive and vital resource available for keeping up-to-date with books in the media. Now Books & Media has become a subscription only service after its succesful and extensive trial period. Continue Reading...
BDS has expanded its portfolio of services through the acquisition of Weesleekit, a multi-discipline design company that provides branding for printed literature, internet and exhibition solutions, video, photography, music and copywriting. Continue Reading...





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