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Monday Mailbag: ISBN, Copyright and More

by Joel Friedlander on October 31, 2016 11 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: Bowker, copyright, CreateSpace, ISBN, Q&A

Do You Know Where Your ISBNs Are? (Free Logbook Download)

by Joel Friedlander on April 4, 2016 23 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: Bowker, Excel, ISBN

A Quick Lesson About Publishers, Imprints, CreateSpace, and Bowker

by Joel Friedlander on February 9, 2015 139 Comments

A Quick Lesson About Publishers, Imprints, CreateSpace, and Bowker explains how to deal with imprint names

Filed Under: Self-Publishing Tagged With: Bowker, CreateSpace, Imprint, ISBN, metadata, publisher, self publishing

Video: Bowker Publisher Setup and ISBN

by Joel Friedlander on November 22, 2011 15 Comments

Video: Bowker Publisher Setup and ISBN that shows in brief the account setup and ISBN purchase at myidentifiers.com

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Training, Video Tagged With: Bowker, ISBN, metadata, MyIdentifiers.com, publishing a book, self publishing, training, video

Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 01

by Joel Friedlander on May 14, 2011 12 Comments

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

Filed Under: Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing, Video Tagged With: book marketing, book metadata, Bowker, discoverability, e-book publishing, ISBN, self publishing, video blog, vlog

How to Set Up Your Book on Bowkerlink for Books in Print

by Joel Friedlander on February 22, 2011 22 Comments

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

Filed Under: Editorial, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing, Writing Tagged With: books in print, Bowker, BowkerLink, Dublin Core, ISBN, metadata, self-publish a book

ISBN 101 For Self-Publishers

by Joel Friedlander on November 19, 2010 361 Comments

ISBN 101 For Self-Publishers including whether you need an ISBN, the “free” ISBN and the many uses of this unique identifier.

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Andy Weissberg, Book Printing, books in print, Bowker, international standard book number, ISBN, publish a book, RR Bowker, self publishing, self-publish

Bowker’s Andy Weissberg on ISBNs and the Future of the Book

by Joel Friedlander on May 19, 2010 6 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Andy Weissberg, book publishing, Bookwire, Bowker, metadata, MyIdentifiers.com, self publishing

ISBN for Self-Publishers: Answers to 20 of your Questions

by Joel Friedlander on March 17, 2010 834 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Bowker, BowkerLink, ISBN, MyIdentifiers.com, self-publish a book

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