I received an inquiry recently from a reader who acquired International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) a long time ago and wanted to know a few things: Were the ISBNs still good? Could they be used? How could he translate the old 10-digit ISBNs to the new 13-digit...
I know a lot of readers don’t actually visit the blog directly, but read articles in their feed reader or in an email message. And I’m glad we have those available, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to keep up with much of what goes on in the...
This very quick video shows you the current version of the Bowker ISBN portal and shows you how to set up a new account and then buy your very own ISBNs. If you’d like to watch it while you set up your own account, you’ll have to be prepared. You’ll...
I’ve often wondered what to do on my blog on Saturdays. When I was first getting started I didn’t blog on the weekends. But like all beginning bloggers I was pretty obsessed with my numbers, with the statistics and analytics and metrics and I hated to see...
In the beginning was the word, and the words are what make the book. But soon thereafter, came the metadata—that is, data about the data. When you publish a new book, you have a chance to assign metadata to your book that will travel with descriptions of the...
