We have held the record of the book since 2000
Kibo — Book Information Automation — is the data infrastructure that holds the bibliographic record of books and stationery products published in Türkiye. It has run without a break for twenty-six years.
What Kibo Catalogue is
Kibo Catalogue has served without interruption since 2000 as Türkiye's first and only electronic book catalogue.
Every book published in Türkiye is described, and prices and print statuses are updated daily. Alongside ISBNs, barcodes, images, descriptions, cover and paper details, dimensions, page count, weight, printing date and printing number, the book information also gives the names of everyone who contributed to the book, from the author to the proofreader.
Products in Kibo Catalogue are classified by category. These ready classifications for books and stationery make your business processes considerably easier.
Where a ready classification helps you
A ready category tree for books and stationery works directly in four places, without you having to classify the product yourself.
In your library
In bulk cataloguing, records arrive with the classification ready; the MARC21 output carries the same tree.
On your website
Product cards open together with the category tree; you do not have to rebuild the menu structure.
On marketplaces
Mapping to local e-commerce category taxonomies is already in the record.
In your stock and accounting software
Barcode, price and VAT fields come from the same record along with the classification.
years without a break
book records
producers
contributor records
The journey
- 2000Kibo Catalogue was foundedfirst bibliographic records
- 2008The XML data service openedfirst corporate integrations
- 2015The REST API went livee-commerce and ERP integrations
- 2021MARC21 and ONIX 3.0 supportlibraries and international marketplaces
- 2026Kibo Index is presented at the Frankfurt Book Fairsales and market analysis
How we hold the data
- We take it from the source
- New book, price and printing information comes directly from the publisher; there is no intermediary.
- We verify it
- Every record is checked against bibliographic standards and missing fields are filled.
- We refresh it daily
- Price and print status are updated daily; changes flow through hourly services.
- We serve it to standards
- The same data is served in XML, JSON, CSV, MARC and ONIX 3.0 with the same field names.
Our products
- Kibo Catalogue
- The bibliographic database; book and stationery records.
- Kibo Data Service
- REST API, XML service, MARC and ONIX outputs.
- Kibo Index
- Market analysis from real sales data collected at book retail points.
- R Kitap
- Book rental; for individual readers and organisations.
Company details
- Company
- Mentis Bilişim ve Dış Ticaret Ltd. Şti.
- Address
- Perpa Ticaret Merkezi B-Blok Floor:8 No:1220, Okmeydanı — Şişli / İstanbul
- [email protected]
- Office
- 0212 210 74 74
- Tax office
- Şişli
- Tax number
- 2950152431
- Mersis
- 0295-0152-4310-0013