Romanian Books in Print Catalogue / Catalogul Cărţilor Disponibile în România
For the public, Books in Print catalogue provides up-to-date information about books published in Romania with ISBN that are available on the market
– on sale in bookshops, book fairs and internet. The catalogue includes the price of a book, number of pages, year of publication, subject of the book, and the language of the publication. It has a section about the newest books, and gives information about authors, translators, publishers, bookstores, and second-hand bookshops. Further, it provides book reviews, news, and links to relevant websites, and weekly newsletter is sent to subscribers with alerts on new books and other book related events such as literary prizes.
For publishers, Books in Print catalogue is an essential instrument for both domestic and worldwide public communication and promotion of their books and authors on a central spot in the national cultural infrastructure. The catalogue offers them the unique possibility to obtain an overview of the topics covered by the book market, thereby enabling them to define their own special niche market. Open to all professional publishing houses, large and small, the catalogue helps create fair rules of competition and effective promotion of book culture. Moreover, Books in Print catalogue offers an overview of bookshops, distributors, wholesalers, book importers and exporters, and other relevant book trade information.
For booksellers, the catalogue is an indispensable source of information about content of a book, its availability, price, and format, the publishing house, including a list of forthcoming books, new publications, backlists, and books that are sold out, as well as information about where and how to order a certain book, where to find a publisher or a distributor. The catalogue provides the booksellers with an essential long awaited device to help them find the books their customers need, and a time-saving overview all at one place.
For librarians, Books in Print catalogue assures a reliable up-to-date source of information about book titles that will make the selection and acquisition of new books easier and faster.
Teachers and students can profit from the Books in Print catalogue information such as book reviews, authors biographies, and book launch announcements.
For journalists Infocarte brings up to date information in a hub, and for magazines, journals and other media links to book reviews, interviews with authors or translators, and news and other book related articles on their websites, in short an extra exposure.
Launched on 30 March 2010, starting with information about more than 3.200 book editions, Infocarte will be filled in the course of the coming year and a half with data concerning available books (books in print). Afterwards it will continue to be daily updated with details of new and forthcoming book editions and news from the book trade.
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Initiated by the Romanian Publishers’ Association (AER), joined by the Romanian Publishers Union (UER) in the Federation of Romanian Publishers (FER), the Books in Print catalogue is supported by the ERSTE Foundation (Vienna) and benefits from the expertise of the Fund for Central and East European Book Projects (CEEBP, Amsterdam) and cooperation with the National Book Centre of the Romanian Cultural Institute (CENNAC / ICR).
The FER guarantees to cooperate with all professional book publishers and booksellers in Romania and to maintain free access to the online Books in Print catalogue for the public.
Copyright © 2010 CEEBP
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Copyright protection
Use of the catalogue is free of charge for the personal needs of the user. It is prohibited to download the catalogue or its parts, or to include it in other catalogues, to reprint, to copy or in any other way or form to reproduce parts or all of the online catalogue without prior written permission from the publisher and without citing the source of the data used. The publishers retain all rights, including those regarding translation. Any unapproved use of the data from www.infocarte.ro, such as copying data in printed publications or on the Internet, the sale of the same to other entities or saving data in information systems will be taken to a court of law to protect the copyright.
Reliability of the information
All information on the website has been compiled in cooperation with the publishers, bookstores, distributors, the National Library of Romania and other professionals on the Romanian book market. The Infocarte team, The National Book Centre, and other contributors have made every effort to ensure that the information published on the www.infocarte.ro website is as accurate as possible. That said, we cannot be held responsible for any consequences resulting from use of the published information or of the website itself.
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