Biblionet
A SERVICE OF THE HELLENIC FOUNDATION FOR BOOKS AND CULTURE
BIBLIONET is the bibliographic database covering the Greek publishing production since 1998. It is available free of charge from the Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture. It allows to search for information on titles (books published with a Greek ISBN), individuals (authors, translators, contributors) or publishing companies in a number of alternative ways: simple or complex search, thematic search, new publications, award-winning books, etc. All data is interconnected by active links making it easy to navigate between fields and to collect information in a combined way.
Since 1998, BIBLIONET has been listing the books published in our country on a daily basis and contains information on thousands of titles as follows:
Detailed bibliographic data
book title, author name, publisher, ISBN, subject, Dewey Decimal Classification-DDC number, etc.
Cover photo
Image file format
Contributors data
Bio, photo and previous works of the author and other contributors (translators, editors, series editors, illustrators, photographers, painters, etc.)
Publishing companies
Contact information and commercial information about the book (distributor, price, availability)
Reviews
Reviews by renowned critics from the print and digital media (newspapers, magazines)
The idea of a complete and reliable database of the Greek publishing production and books in print came with the establishment of the National Book Centre (EKEBI) in December 1994. In July 1998, BIBLIONET was set up in the form of a public limited company (‘BIBLIONET Public Limited Company for the Production and Exploitation of Bibliographic Products and Services’ [SA<D 6203/30-07-1998]) with the participation of the representative entities of the sector in its share capital: 45 major publishers, two publishers’ associations (Athens Book Publishers’ Association and Βook Publishers’ Association), the Hellenic Federation of Publishers and Booksellers and the EKEBI itself. According to the will of its shareholders, the company’s aim was to support the book industry. However, despite the low selling price of the product, the book market was unable to ensure its viability.
Since 2003, following a proposal of the company’s shareholders, EKEBI has undertaken the acquisition and exclusive management of BIBLIONET as a bibliographic database, as the only organization capable of guaranteeing the sustainability, quality and availability of this very useful tool. Since 2014 (after EKEBI was shut down), BIBLIONET has been operating under the responsibility of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture (in collaboration, since 2018, with the General Secretariat of Contemporary Culture / Department of Reading and Digital Content of the Ministry of Culture and Sports) and since 2024 under the responsibility of the Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture. Its website [www.biblionet.gr] has not stopped being updated for a single day, offering its services to all interested parties free of charge.
International image
BIBLIONET’s bibliographic product is comparable to similar products abroad, such as Bowker in the USA, Nielsen Book Data in the UK, Electre in France, Informazioni Editoriali in Italy, Micronet in Spain, VNB in Germany. Together with these organization, BIBLIONET participated in the joint promotion website BookDB.com (BookDataBase). The Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture (HFBC) is currently the only organization in Europe that provides such a service free of charge to professionals and the public, as all other services are private (except in Germany) and offer their products at a high price.
Booksellers
More than 700 booksellers use the BIBLIONET database systematically in real time (online) to research and sell books. Certified book professionals are informed daily about new entries in order to enrich private or commercial databases (e.g. for e-bookstore applications).
Useful links
The website was implemented within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0”, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
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