Carol Cooper

"MarketLinks is an amazing tool that has the capability to transform any publishers' online marketing campaigns for its book list," said Carol Cooper, Senior Director of Standards Services at Bowker.
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Cooper will be providing one-on-one demonstrations of MarketLinks, including examples of how the service is already being put to use by major domestic publishers, in Booth 3503 at the BEA Expo.

"MarketLinks is an amazing tool that has the capability to transform any publisher's online marketing campaigns for its book list," said Carol Cooper, Senior Director of Standards Services at Bowker.
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Cooper will be providing one-on-one demonstrations of MarketLinks, including examples of how the service is already being put to use by major domestic publishers, in Booth 3503 at the BEA Expo.

Carol Cooper, Senior Director, Standards Services, at Bowker, says that on average, 12,000 new publishers apply for a prefix every year. (That's publishers, not books.) A large publisher might take a block of 100,000 numbers at a time.

While Bowker owns the authenticating system for ISBNs, the ISBNs themselves can be referenced and used without the permission of Bowkers or the publishers, says Carol.
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Now there are Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) that "fall under the purview" of R.R. Bowker, says Carol Cooper.
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Crossref.org "houses 14 million of the 20 million DOIs that are live today," says Carol.