So the purchase has been made and I have to say it was the best investment of the year. Signed into Bowker and purchased 1000 ISBN#’s for On The Fly Publications.
Read all the contracts and fine print ($1000 is a lot of money to goof up) and then clicked the purchase order. Enough to carry Wanted Hero to it’s final resting place of completion.
If you’re looking to self-publish or even start your own publishing business like my family did, I recommend you buy your own block of ISBN#’s and do it in the large quantities.
- They’re cheaper by bulk.
- You’ll need more #’s than you might think if you’re producing even a single book in various forms (print, eBook, audio, programming).
- The established systems/companies are fast changing the rules to their services…so that only authors who own the ISBN can utilize their full array of benefits.
- Bowker provides a huge gambit of benefit services to the ISBN holders, which include increasing the ability to find your book and even increasing the search-ability on engines like Google and Yahoo.
So take a moment to consider the ramifications of owning your own numbers and read up on ISBN’s. It’s your book, after all.
-Jaime Buckley
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