The tag has no wiki summary.

learn more… | top users | synonyms

3
votes
3answers
704 views

If I get a free ISBN through Amazon's CreateSpace now, will that impact any decisions about getting my own ISBN later?

I am preparing my book for print-on-demand through Amazon's CreateSpace service, and I am trying to understand the options for getting an ISBN. I am a little confused. CreateSpace offers a "free" ...
4
votes
2answers
126 views

How to deal with two ISBN from two different countries?

Since the book I am working on will be published in two different countries, it has two ISBN. The tricky question here is this: must both the ISBN barcode be placed onto the back cover of the book? ...
1
vote
1answer
163 views

How do I add an ISBN to Calibre ebook?

I downloaded Calibre two days ago. According to the Calibre user manual (website): Click the book you want to edit and then click the Edit metadata button or press the E key. A dialog opens that ...
2
votes
3answers
341 views

What is the difference between an ISBN and an ISBN Barcode?

Is the ISBN the same as the ISBN Barcode or are these 2 different things? I want to publish my own books, so need some clarification. Which one will help me save on my publishing cost?
4
votes
3answers
136 views

ISBN codes for privately sold books?

We are starting a community site for budding authors. Here the young writers send a pdf files of there writing and we get them printed at a lower prices than other publishers. And these books are only ...
4
votes
3answers
3k views

How to Create Barcode from ISBN Number

I have published some story books for kids and I have already bought the ISBN numbers for the same. But I am confused on how to get those ISBN numbers as barcodes on covers of books. What is the ...
2
votes
2answers
277 views

Can I use a different ISBN when publishing a co-authored book in two different countries?

I have what seems to be a rather complicated situation and need some advice. I have co-authored a book with an author living in a different country. We began by using a publisher in her country but ...
6
votes
2answers
116 views

ISBN - is it possible to have one and a title before publishing?

i am currently writing a book but would like to know if i can pre register an ISBN and Book title. I am little concerned someone might call their book the same as mine before i finish it. So i really ...
5
votes
3answers
225 views

ISBN - does it uniquely identify book dimension?

(I'm not sure this question fits here but this site seems the most appropriate within stackexchange network...) I'm trying to buy a some book from NHBS (a field guide). The problem is that the same ...
3
votes
1answer
281 views

Can I ask CreateSpace to *not* add a barcode to my cover?

I'm about to publish a book via CreateSpace. For graphical reasons, I prefer to add the ISBN barcode myself at the size and position of my choice. How can I set it up on CS so that they don't add a ...
8
votes
2answers
120 views

Should DOIs ever be preferred to ISBNs?

Any ISBN yields a DOI. For example, the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed. has ISBN 978-0-226-10420-1, which maps to doi:10.978.226/104201, allowing any book to be digitally identified in a reference ...
http://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/isbn
writers.stackexchange.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2015-06
67971
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:2MXKUTTZCID2KQAUGCKLTMTZ6BJUPUPQ
<urn:uuid:9904e765-959a-433d-8d11-6670da4109ba>
2015-01-25T14:22:24Z
198.252.206.140
sha1:4J2DLFJKAO754AH5WOHB6QLH2FLC57ZA
<urn:uuid:2a106883-ef77-4f2a-914c-5db32c7d94fc>
http://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/isbn
response
<urn:uuid:6b5f741f-df26-44f0-adc2-be5c55a6b75e>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-06
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for January 2015
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf