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Build a better understanding of where and how books are made. The Book Chain Project is open for book and journal publishers, commercial printers, and manufacturers involved in the book supply chain.
For book and journal publishers
These are the fees for the 2025 Book Chain Project (BCP) year that starts on 1st September 2025 and ends on the 31st of August 2026.
We have moved to one annual project fee, with additional add-ons for chemical safety and EUDR.
| Fee | |
|---|---|
| BCP Annual Fee | £15,310 |
| Chemical Safety (add on) | £6,685 |
| EUDR (add on) | TBC* |
| Total | £21,995 |
Project fees are spent in full within 12 months and are non-refundable if a participating company leaves during that 12-month period. They are pro-rated by quarter for new entrants.
* We will advise the add on cost for EUDR once we have received the expected further guidance from the EU on the 2026 requirements.
For print suppliers
These are the fees for the 2025 Book Chain Project (BCP) year that starts on 1st September 2025 and ends on the 31st of August 2026.
This covers access to all elements including but not limited to:
- Ability to select and request paper brands and mills
- Interactive legislation tracker
- Product Carbon Footprint builder
- Peer benchmarking
- Forum meetings, message boards and drop-in sessions
Access to the database for normal engagement e.g. audits, environmental questionnaires, chemical safety remains free for suppliers.
We're also developing an EUDR solution. Currently the legislation is changing too often for us to confirm exactly what this will look like. As more information becomes available, we will continue to update all printers.
| Fee | |
|---|---|
| BCP Annual Fee | £1,000 |
| Total | £1,000 |
Project fees are spent in full within 12 months and are non-refundable if a participating company leaves during that 12-month period. They are pro-rated by quarter for new entrants.
For manufacturers of paper, board, and other book components
As a paper manufacturer there is no fee for using the Book Chain Project.
You have a dedicated space for your paper and board brands, which you can use it to maintain your product listings, their technical specifications, and their pulp and paper sources. Your products will be searchable by all the publishers and printers involved with the Book Chain Project.
Publishers add paper and board brands to the system and we ask you to update the pulp and paper sources every 12 months. This includes the tree species used, their country of origin, and any third-party certification. Use this system to answer multiple customer requests in a single portal.
Your data is used by SLR Consulting to risk assess a paper brand’s paper sources. We then issue each paper brand with a ‘grade’ on a rating system of stars. This grade is visible to publishers and print suppliers involved with the Book Chain Project.
The pulp and paper source data you supply is held securely in a password-protected database. Information on your suppliers, including their third-party certification numbers, is only visible to administrators from SLR Consulting. We use it to verify that certificates are valid and relevant to the correct product type and tree species. All supplier information is hidden from all other users.