Time for another installment of our long-running, intermittently-published question-and-answer roundups. Yes, it’s another Monday Mailbag in which we gather questions from my email inbox, from the comments on the blog, and from strange calls in the middle of the night from distraught authors wondering just where they went wrong. Once again I’ve reached deep into […]
Do You Know Where Your ISBNs Are? (Free Logbook Download)
Back in 1986 it took a lot longer to get an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) from Bowker. I remember talking to the women who issued the ISBNs from an office somewhere in New Jersey. There was an administrative fee, as I recall of about $35, and once your order was placed, eventually a large […]
A Quick Lesson About Publishers, Imprints, CreateSpace, and Bowker
A Quick Lesson About Publishers, Imprints, CreateSpace, and Bowker explains how to deal with imprint names
Video: Bowker Publisher Setup and ISBN
Video: Bowker Publisher Setup and ISBN that shows in brief the account setup and ISBN purchase at myidentifiers.com
Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 01
Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 01 Video blog, Joel Friedlander discusses Bowker’s Books in Print Database and book metadata for self-publishers
How to Set Up Your Book on Bowkerlink for Books in Print
How to Set Up Your Book on Bowkerlink for Books in Print and the importance of metadata to make your book discoverable by search engines
ISBN 101 For Self-Publishers
ISBN 101 For Self-Publishers including whether you need an ISBN, the “free” ISBN and the many uses of this unique identifier.
Bowker’s Andy Weissberg on ISBNs and the Future of the Book
Today I’m pleased to have an interview with Andy Weissberg of R. R. Bowker. Bowker is a central player in the entire book industry due to the company’s status as the U.S. Agency of the International Standard Book Numbering Convention, as approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISBN was created in the early […]
ISBN for Self-Publishers: Answers to 20 of your Questions
One of the areas that I get the most questions about is the use of the ISBN, the unique numeric identifier that’s used around the world to identify books. New self-publishers are especially concerned with making sure their books are registered properly, that everything is done so that their book can be sold without any […]