Clive Herbert has worked in the book trade for over 30 years, starting as a Branch Manager and Fiction buyer for James Thin Booksellers, before joining their head office team in Edinburgh as the Group Buying Manager.He joined Nielsen BookData in 2002, first as Publisher Relations Manager and then as Head of Publishing Services. His current role, as Head of Professional Services, involves responsibility for Registration Agencies, which supplies ISBNs and SANs to the UK book trade. He continues to work with publishers large and small, helping them improve the quality of their bibliographic data to support their sales and marketing activities.An avid reader of historical non-fiction and crime novels, Clive enjoys meeting publishers and authors and helping them to understand the book supply chain and advise them on good data practice. He is a regular speaker at author and self-publisher events both in the UK and overseas.