If an ISBN is like a fingerprint,
every different edition of your book needs a separate set of fingerprints (ISBN) to identify it.
Not exact matches
Perhaps because the connotations
of the word «malaise» are
different in French and in English, perhaps because the word is virtually unusable in this context in the United States so soon after Jimmy Carter, and surely because Taylor expressly frames his
book as a continuation
of the inquiry nobly undertaken by Lionel Trilling in his Norton Lectures at Harvard under the title Sincerity and Authenticity, the American
edition has been entitled The Ethics
of Authenticity.
He knows how much the
different versions
of the first
edition of Ulysses cost in francs, pounds, and dollars, how much Eliot received from all sources for publishing The Waste Land and how that compares with the per capita income
of the United States at the time, and how much Ezra Pound's first
book had increased in value by 1924.
The insistence that communism and fascism be weighed on
different moral scales continues, says Martin Malia in his introduction to the American
edition of The Black
Book, because «no matter what the hard facts are, degrees
of totalitarian evil will be measured as much in terms
of present politics as in terms
of past realities.»
The current
edition of the DSM, the DSM - IV, is something like a field guide to mental disorders: the
book pairs each illness with a checklist
of symptoms, just as a naturalist's guide describes the distinctive physical features
of different birds.
Because printed
editions have very
different layout requirements from ebooks, there are extra costs associated with the cover and text sections
of your
book.
Special
book club
editions of books may have a
different binding or size from standard issue
books from the same publisher.
Popular poetry
books get published in dozens
of editions; they get published in magazines, in columns and newspapers, in
different typefaces with
different margins, even
different colors
of paper, they go out on broadsides and are scrawled onto walls, and on and on.
Each
edition has a
different page count not because the length
of the story has somehow changed, but because the number
of pages a
book contains is determined by that particular
edition of the
book's internal formatting.
The ISBN number is
different for new versions and
editions of books.
Do NOT load your
book to Ingram with a
different ISBN to avoid this process — having the same
edition of your
book with
different ISBNs will cause problems for you.
Apple is getting into the business
of comic
books in a big way, with over 1,500
different editions and graphic novels on its platform.
Please note: In any combination
of large collections
of books will be any number
of duplications, sometimes
of the same
edition or the same title and author, but a
different edition.
If you want to sell the German
edition of your
book, putting it up on Amazon.de is probably a good idea (more on the
different ebook stores and distributors in Germany in a later post).
I wish it were
different and we're working to release free versions in other languages when those
editions of the
book comes out, but in the meantime my apologies to readers outside the US if you're not getting full text.]
Lastly (and to make things even more confusing), your categories for the Kindle
edition of your
book will be
DIFFERENT yet again, and will need to be set via Kindle Direct Publishing, which is something we'll discuss in Part 4
of this series.
I've got a print and eBook on Amazon that are
different editions of the same
book.
Hardback
editions and paperback
editions of a paper
books often have
different layout and page numbering.
In cases where multiple
editions of the same
book are available and the page numbering varies in the
different versions, the publisher would have to decide which paper
book edition to use as the source
of the page numbers.
I am going to assume that you have a paper
edition of your
book and you have your
book available in all the
different major online bookstores direct so you are getting paid monthly.
The world record for most translations
of a single title signed by the author in one sitting belongs to Paulo Coelho (Brazil) who signed 53
different language
editions of his bestseller The Alchemist on 10 October 2003, from 6:30 pm to 8 pm, at the Frankfurt
Book fair, Germany.
One aspect that he spoke
of was what he termed «enhanced hardcovers;» when the reader purchases the print
edition of a
book, the ebook could quite easily be included in the purchase, allowing the reader to choose the format he reads at
different times.
Publishers set the price, and they can sell multiple
editions of the same
book with
different «features»: one might have an audio track or special text - to - speech voices, while another could be plain text.
Royalties: Authors make
different amounts
of money depending on the
edition of the
book sold.
We only use
different ISBNs as a standard procedure for the enhanced
edition, or for a completely
different layout (as in the case
of an iBooks Author version
of the same
book).
I agree that
different versions /
editions of a
book need a
different ISBN.
Each
of your
books has sections for an outline, an overview, its contributors and the
different editions that have been published.
For instance, film rights deal with a movie version
of the
book, translation rights deal with
editions of the
book in
different languages, and serial rights deal with excerpts rather than the complete story.
As we've seen in previous articles, though, you may not be writing for any single territory, and you're not likely to create separate
editions of your
book for
different English - speaking audiences, so you may have to choose a resource that's traditionally been used for one particular territory and use it for a worldwide audience.
An ISBN is assigned to every
different format
of the same
book to help distinguish that
edition in the marketplace.
Every
edition of a
book has to have a separate ISBN, i.e. an ebook will have a
different ISBN from a printed
book, the ePub version has to have a
different number from the Kindle version etc. (Amazon do not require you to have an ISBN but if you wish your
book to be recognised by your national library you will need one.)
Many clients have 8, 10, and even a dozen
editions of the same
book designed to be published at
different vendors and in
different formats.
This award, in contrast, is
different as it is not - for - profit, with money raised through entry fees going to mental health charity Aware, and a bookshop distribution for the print
edition of the
book as its prize.
The Bible is the best - selling
book of all time due to its backing by religion, word
of mouth advertising, and the many
different editions and translations that have been made over the years.
A
different company, Animate USA, has also been publishing Kindle
editions of Aurora's
books in recent months.
The solution is a good one: new
editions of these
books will be put together, something that will make them
different from the «for sale»
editions.
You need a
different ISBN for every
book you publish as well as for
different editions of the same
book.
Who's going to incur the cost
of promoting a new
book or author in New Zealand, for instance, if the sale goes to a
different company in the US — you need a way to connect the sale to the promoter who bears the cost
of that sale (often, but not necessarily) the same publisher who is promoting the p -
book edition at considerable expense).
For begin we will consider
different devices in size with the small
book of the pocket
edition.
But in today's busy world, with so many demands on your time, it's not always easy to find information you can trust.In this introduction to The Women's Health
Book, you will find out how and why women's health care is so
different to men's; how you can keep your body and mind healthy as you grow older; and how to get the most out
of a doctor's appointment.For a comprehensive look at every aspect
of your body and health, you can go to the complete
edition of The Women's Health
Book.
Any specific
book is going to be essentially undifferentiated in the
different stores - it's not like Barnes & Noble would have an exclusive special chapter or two in a
book, or would have an
edition of it that's been proofread better.
Surprisingly, there are illustrations in at least one
of the free
editions of Beatrix Potter's
books — Project Gutenberg's free version
of The Tale
of Peter Rabbit — but they're by an entirely
different illustrator named Virginia Albert.
Online store
of Barnes & Noble offers
books in
different formats, not only paperback, hardback or Nook
book, but also audiobooks, and special
editions.
Added to that,
different stretch goals will unlock special rewards such as a PAC - MAN metal figure, artwork
of the original PAC - MAN sketches and a limited -
edition art
book.
Or you could opt for the Charing Cross
edition, which gets you a
different box, a slightly shorter 26 cm high statue
of Jacob that is also missing the giant cog seen in the Big Ben version, a map
of London, art
book and the soundtrack, all for # 75.
The game will come in three
different variants: a standard
edition, a SteelBook
edition (basically the same game in a nicer, shinier case), and the premium «Take Your Heart»
edition (which comes with goodies like an art
book and a plush
of the mascot character Morgana, among other things).
As galleries and artists vye for attention during Frieze week, bringing out the biggest and most eye - catching
of works, Multiplied champions a
different sort
of project: it's dedicated entirely to artists»
books, prints, and sculptural
editions.
The photographs used for these Limited
Editions originate from Guyton's artist's
books — his Zeichnungen publications which present series
of photographs
of his drawings piled against
different surfaces in his New York studio.
It functions as a non catalogue towards the project titled, «the death
of god left the angels in a strange place» The
book will have multiple volumes and
different limited
edition versions.
Different translations and
editions of the
book «The Limits to Growth» (1972), plexiglas, wire.