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International Standard Book Number. ISBN. It seems to confuse folks no end.
[image: photo http://www.sxc.hu/photo/947375 by Zsuzsanna Kilian http://www.sxc.hu/profile/nkzs” width=”200″ height=”240″ class=”alignright size-full wp-image-2958]I get it. Numbers, to most of us in the western world, are about ownership. If someone has your social security number you could be in trouble. Credit card number? Lock it up. Driver’s license? Well, it feels important.
No. Wrong. It’s nothing like that.
Nearly all the print on demand shops will sell you a barcode.
This might be the biggest waste of money in self-publishing.
Cheryl Campbell
Continuing our conversation with author Cheryl Campbell
I’m looking at the bulk 10 ISBNs deal from Bowker.
If I have 2 books and do them both in soft and hard cover, that’s 4 ISBNs right there. And I can’t imagine my writing will cease and desist after these 2 books.
I’m thinking I’ll use CreateSpace for the soft cover POD, and another printer for just hard backs more for use as gifts than anything else since I know hard backs are more expensive to produce than soft.
What are your thoughts on this plan?
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