[AMBIENT] PDFs with ISBNs

HellHound · 18th March 2003, 12:09 AM

[Vankleek Hill, Ontario] Ambient Inc. is now adding ISBN numbers to all of our PDF and POD releases. ISBN numbers are an international tracking method used in the book sales and publishing industry for ease of re-ordering and scanning products, whereby each product has its own unique machine-readable ISBN.

Over the next few days, we will be uploading revised versions of our existing products with the new ISBNs to our vendor (RPGnow). As this is only a minor addition to the products in question, there will not be a general reissue of the products in question.

The ISBNs are as follows:

ISBN 0-9732818-0-4 = Three Arrows for the King - The Archer's Guide
ISBN 0-9732818-1-2 = Librum Equitis Compiled
ISBN 0-9732818-2-0 = The Kids Colouring Book
ISBN 0-9732818-3-9 = Crimson Contracts: The Assassin's Manifesto
ISBN 0-9732818-4-7 = Everyone Else
ISBN 0-9732818-5-5 = Portable Hole Full of Beer (this product contains no alcohol)
ISBN 0-9732818-6-3 = Thee Compleat Librum ov Gar'Udok's Necromantic Artes
ISBN 0-9732818-7-1 = Librum Equitis, Volume 1
ISBN 0-9732818-8-X = Librum Equitis, Volume 2
ISBN 0-9732819-0-1 = Son of a Portable Hole

Flyspeck23 · 18th March 2003, 04:02 PM

Cool. But what does that mean for me? I still can´t order them at my local book store, or can I?

HellHound · 18th March 2003, 05:04 PM

No, but it means we can begin the process of making them available via the ebook system at Amazon.com

Flyspeck23 · 19th March 2003, 05:14 PM

Well then... this being the "e-Publishers"-forum, maybe you could point the rest of us (who don't know that is) to the place where we could get our own ISBNs.

HellHound · 19th March 2003, 06:14 PM

It depends on where your business is located.

Canadian publishers have to contact the National Library of Canada.

American publishers have to contact the U.S. ISBN Agency (based in New Jersey) ( www.isbn.org )

jmucchiello · 19th March 2003, 08:22 PM

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Originally posted by HellHound
American publishers have to contact the U.S. ISBN Agency (based in New Jersey) ( www.isbn.org )

And pay a hefty fee. Ouch. I can't believe how much extra they charge to email the results in a couple days. The nerve.

Flyspeck23 · 22nd March 2003, 03:38 AM

And there's no such thing like www.isbn.de, so I'm out of luck (or have to do my research... but wait, I ain't got a book out...).

jgbrowning · 22nd March 2003, 05:04 AM

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Originally posted by jmucchiello
And pay a hefty fee. Ouch. I can't believe how much extra they charge to email the results in a couple days. The nerve.

Yep, that's why i waited the ten days. Ridiculous fees.

joe b.

Mystic Eye · 30th March 2003, 06:48 PM

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Originally posted by HellHound
It depends on where your business is located.

Canadian publishers have to contact the National Library of Canada.

American publishers have to contact the U.S. ISBN Agency (based in New Jersey) ( www.isbn.org )

The US site to register yourself and get ISBNs is http://www.bowker.com. BOwker Inc. is the agency that manages ISBNs for the USA!

MThibault · 31st March 2003, 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by Flyspeck23
And there's no such thing like www.isbn.de, so I'm out of luck (or have to do my research... but wait, I ain't got a book out...).

Dansk BiblioteksCenter as
ISBN group agency
Att. Ms. Randi Diget Hansen
Tempovej 7-11
2750 Ballerup
Tel: (+45) 44 86 77 25
Fax: (+45) 44 86 78 53
e-mail: rdh@dbc.dk
isbn@dbc.dk
URL: http://www.isbn.kontoret.dk

Ask a librarian.

Cheers

MThibault · 31st March 2003, 07:03 PM

Oops, my bad:

MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH
ISBN-Agentur für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Att. Ms. Anke Lehr
Postfach 10 04 42
60004 Frankfurt am Main
Tel: (+49 69) 130 63 87
Fax: (+49 69) 130 62 58
e-mail: a.lehr@mvb-online.de
URL: http://www.german-isbn.org

Silly mistake. I have friends in Germany and have been there. I know the difference between DE and DK. Really, I do.

Cheers