Metadata for Self-Publishers, Part 1: The concept of metadata, how metadata uses keywords and information about the book to make it discoverable to searchers
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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 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 […]
How to Create, Register and List Your New Publishing Company
When an author decides to publish their own book, there are many questions to be answered. It’s the first of these questions about self-publishing I want to address in this article, and that has to do with starting a publishing company. Some authors will decide to simply print copies of their book for their own […]