[AMBIENT] PDFs with ISBNs

[HellHound]

[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]

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

 

[HellHound]

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

 

[Flyspeck23]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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



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