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Some Housekeeping stuff
1) Yikes - I almost forgot to announce the winner(s) of lurker day contest and books are the following lurkers drawn randomly...
Julianna -
Rachele Alpine
Yat Yee
Amber Cuadra
Tricia OBrien
Congrads and email me your address and whether you want middle grade or young adult and I'll give you a couple to choose from. Thank for coming out to say hi and I hope to see you all again :)
2) In case you haven't heard, my Untraceable Official Blog tour has started and I've had a few stops:
Enjoyed reading “The ISBN as SKU”, Peter Brantley’s blog post on how publishers may deal with having intermediaries (e.g. resellers) assign their own ISBNs to specific editions or variants of a work, possibly without the publisher’s knowledge:
“Already, publishers are making a single EPUB digital book package, and then leaving the proliferation of more discrete ebook reader formats to intermediaries, distributors and wholesalers. Ingram will make the XYZ, Amazon will make the Kindle format, etc. The publisher is only responsible for one file, the .epub package…We are rapidly jerking forwards into a near term future where ISBNs will be assigned for derivative digital book products by intermediaries, not publishers. As an astute colleague observed in New York, the ISBN becomes a product SKU.” (More…)
The followup comments from folks in and around the book trade are particularly interesting.
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Some observations from Peter Brantley about what ISBNs will do in an age of digital books and multiple intermediaries between “publishers” and “readers.”
We are rapidly jerking forwards into a near term future where ISBNs will be assigned for derivative digital book products by intermediaries, not publishers. As an astute colleague observed in New York, the ISBN becomes a product SKU.
There are many disadvantages in this; one is that it will become increasingly difficult to find the “book” in the tangled weave of various digital instantiations. Perhaps no longer will we be able to ask how many copies did EduPunk 2020 sell.
By: Rebecca,
on 1/15/2008
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Awesome blog tour so far Shelli.
Lisa, thanks for sharing all the info on ISBN's. There's a lot to know about them. If I ever decide to get one, I'll be referring back to your post.
Learn something new everyday! Thanks Lisa!
Yet another awesome post in the series. Thank you for the information Lisa! :)
Interesting stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Extremely informative!
I have a question.
If I were to self publish, from what I can tell, the single most reason to buy an ISBN is to be more professional? Most readers don't look at that. And smart ones will know you're self publishing by the price of the book.
Is there a more convincing reason outside of looking more professional? I would think the money put into cover design and editing will show that.
And I'm pretty sure retailers won't be fooled either. Is that the main reason? For the off chance retailers will want to buy the book? I just don't see that happening with self published books. It rarely happens with small press books.
I'm not trying to be a pain. But it's just been recently that I've heard people mention the isbn number. It seems more of an image thing. Am I wrong?
Laura - you dont need one if you only plan to do ebooks.
If you do paperbacks or hardbacks at all pr ever want to do a book signing at a store - majority of bookstores and librarians will never buy your book unless it has an ISBN - that is how they look it up.
Same thing with cover. If you just do ebooks - you may not spend as much on cover but you definitely don't want a chinsy one - readers can tell and you want the cover to pull people in so they buy your ebook.
If you decide to do paperback or hardback - the cover does in fact matter and they store scan tell the difference.
does that help?
Thanks for your question, Laura. The point isn't to fool anyone. It's about how you conduct business. There are many things you can do as a business person to establish yourself as a professional vs. a hobbyist, not just in publishing, but in any venture. However, that's only part of it. An ISBN is an internationally recognized tracking number. If you want your book to have universal sales potential, you need an ISBN. Without it, you're limiting yourself. As Shelli said, it's helpful when you're doing things like book signings or putting your book on consignment in stores--something I've encountered directly. The ISBN itself tells retailers how big or small your publishing company is, so it's not like you could fool anyone, anyway.
I think anyone attempting to be a successful indie author needs to look at all aspects of publishing from a professional angle. And that includes things like cover and editing. It's all part of establishing your brand and instilling trust in your customer.
Yay! I'm so glad being a lurker paid off! :) And Lisa's book is AWESOME! I had the honor of reading it in draft form, and I highly recommend it. This was a great guest post!
Really good information - thank you. I've bookmarked this for future reference :)
The book sounds terrific too - off to check it out!