Please review
our ISBN number information for self - publishers to learn more about them.
Not exact matches
Create a 1 page «sell sheet» with all the details for the book including, cover, description, categories,
ISBN number, retail price and contact
information.
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ISBN barcode, FREE web page for marketing your book, and useful
information on getting your product listed on Amazon, iBooks, B&N, etc..
Amazon's infrastructure, including the integration of
ISBNs into Amazon Standard Identification
Numbers (ASINs), has shaped the book trade over last two decades, and in places, has replaced traditional sources of
information such as Bowker's Books in Print and Nielsen BookScan.
For the first time, the
numbers from Bowker — the official
ISBN Agency for the United States and a leading provider of bibliographic
information — included self - published titles.
So copyright date, entity holding the copyright, publisher info,
ISBN, Library of Congress control
numbers, contact
information, and - in fiction - frequently a statement along the lines of «I made this up.
But I think the challenge for self - published authors, ones with real
ISBN numbers that get tracked on Nielsen Bookscan, is that their sales
numbers through the traditional bookstores are public
information for publishers.
Book authors and publishers can get free listings in various directories such as Books in Print, Words on Cassette, Createspace and the like, but in order to ensure that your titles ever get into the Books in Print database at all, you must first submit your book's title
information along with the
ISBN number you've already registered with R.R. Bowker.
Your
ISBN number separates your particular
information from that of other authors and makes it easier to locate.
Lest this mislead anyone as to the state of self - publishing, it's worth noting that this
information refers to authors who purchased their own
ISBN numbers — either on their own or as part of a project them completed with the help of a publishing service provider — as opposed to using a free Amazon - assigned
number.
«You may know Bowker from ordering your
ISBN numbers, but they are also the provider for «Books In Print and Global Books In Print» that contain listings of bibliographical
information for international book titles available in the USA or any other part of the world, in bookstores and libraries.
Start a national database of books with an
isbn number with all relevant infomation so that a library tech or page could (in most cases) scan the book's barcode and have all appropriate descriptions, metatags, etc populate the individual library systems computer
information sysytems.
Bowker, the ProQuest group that supplies book
information to publishers, libraries, and booksellers and is the official US agency for identifying
ISBN numbers, released the results today of its most recent study on self - published books, both print and digital.
First, the author's storefront should contain, in addition to Lulu ID, cover picture and price, critical
information about the book, namely title,
number of pages, whether paperback or hardcover etc, and
ISBN number if it applies.
The
ISBN number is printed on the lower right back cover above the barcode and on the page containing your book's copyright
information.
I do everything from editing their book (by the way, have a BA in Comm / Journalism and lots of experience), helping coordinate cover design, layout, indexing, securing an
ISBN number, bar codes, PCIP
information, registering copyright, etc..
Having already allocated an
ISBN number to a book & successfully uploaded the book
information onto the Bowker Identifier website, if I were to add «written and illustrated by» above my author name on the front cover, would I have to count this as a second edition and therefore need to use a new
ISBN number?
iTunes Producer takes all the
information about your book (cover, interior, description,
ISBN number, pricing, etc.) and packages it into one file and it is that file that will be uploaded.
Copyright page — Usually the verso of the title page, this page carries the copyright notice, edition
information, publication
information, printing history, cataloging data, legal notices, and the books
ISBN or identification
number.
«Include the following
information: Author, title; name, address, and telephone
number of publisher; date of publication; price;
number of pages; and
ISBN and LC
numbers if available.
The front matter in a book consists of: the title page (which includes copyright
information, the
ISBN number, etc.), the dedication, the epigraph, table of contents, acknowledgements, the foreword, the preface, the introduction, and the prologue.
No review is published until SLJ has received two copies of the book and the following bibliographic
information: author, title, binding (s), price (s), publication month and year,
ISBN (s), Library of Congress
number (or notice that there will not be one) and whether or not Cataloging in Publication data will appear in the book.
To buy your own
ISBNs, go to http://www.myidentifiers.com Bowker U.S.
ISBN Agency site Wikipedia entry on the International Standard Book
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ISBN Information
If there is research of specific books required for your project, it will be beneficial if you are able to provide
information such as an
ISBN number.