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Bowker cuts its ties with Nielsen BookData.(RR Bowker)(Brief Article)
The bibliographic data services market is set for upheaval next month, when US giant RR Bowker cuts its ties with Nielsen BookData and launches against it in the UK, writes Bobby Pickering.
Bowker will stop taking data from Nielsen BookData on 30 March and create its own UK database to feed into Global Books In Print. Nielsen BookData has been the only serious contender in the market for almost two years, since it was created from the merger of BookData and Whitaker in 2002 - a move that was investigated and approved by the Competition Commission.
This is a second blow for Nielsen BookData, which had major data quality issues last year when it merged the companies' two databases. The company has adopted an upfront approach over the quality issues, apologising to customers and claiming that service levels are back to normal.
Nielsen BookData executive director Richard Knight cited a return to 98% service level in matching data last November.
The company's sales and ...
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