astralpwka
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Yeah... I'm pretty much stumped. All of my free stuff costs me when I'm not looking.
Does this mean Canada created Kazaa, Napster, etc...?
Does this mean Canada created Kazaa, Napster, etc...?
[AMBIENT] PDFs with ISBNs
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HellHound
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astralpwka said:
This is not the forum for politics.
If you feel the need to respond to this post, please do so in private.
What it comes down to is that Canada is a lot more socialist than the US, and has higher taxes to help pay for things like "free" healthcare, welfare, ISBNs, and so on.
BTW As a librarian, I can attest to the value of an ISBN. Small retailers (which are very similar to libraries, actually, except that they try to make money and we try to stay underbudget) rely heavily on ISBNs when tracking down special orders or marrying advertising information to an actual product. There is nothing like an internationally recognized, standardized, unique number to make your search *very* fast.
Secondly, and this isn't as important in the hobby trade as book trade, but the National Library of Canada, who administers the ISBNs publishes Forthcoming Books -- a monthly catalogue (available on the internet) that tells retailers and suppliers what products are in the pipe. They use the ISBN and CIP (Cataloguing in Publication) data to give the retailers (large and small) and savvy consumers a bit of free advertising and prepublication support.
Large retailers won't carry books without ISBNs because it is nearly impossible to find a product without it -- unless you are an expert in that field, as many of us on these boards are, or the product is published by a huge or prestigious (read as: commonly known) company.
Cheers
Secondly, and this isn't as important in the hobby trade as book trade, but the National Library of Canada, who administers the ISBNs publishes Forthcoming Books -- a monthly catalogue (available on the internet) that tells retailers and suppliers what products are in the pipe. They use the ISBN and CIP (Cataloguing in Publication) data to give the retailers (large and small) and savvy consumers a bit of free advertising and prepublication support.
Large retailers won't carry books without ISBNs because it is nearly impossible to find a product without it -- unless you are an expert in that field, as many of us on these boards are, or the product is published by a huge or prestigious (read as: commonly known) company.
Cheers
Not a problem, I'll email you offline.
I'll also give you the lowdown on how legal deposit applies to electronic and print on demand publications.
For the benefit of Fiery Dragon and other Canadian print publishers: Legal Deposit is the section of the National Library Act that obliges Canadian publishers to send two copies of everything they publish to the National Library of Canada. If you print fewer than 100 copies you only have to send one to NLC. One copy becomes a circulating copy through the Interlibrary Loan system and the other becomes a preservation copy that is physically stabilized and preserved forever.
These books are then catalogued in Amicus. Amicus is a powerful searching tool for librarians and book-store owners -- although I suspect that the latter group under-uses it. It is an online catalogue of the NLC's entire collection, as well as a Union Catalogue of hundreds of reporting libraries throughout the country. I live and die by Amicus in my library.
Electronic publications are treated a bit differently, though. So I'll give you the info and contact numbers off-list.
Cheers
I'll also give you the lowdown on how legal deposit applies to electronic and print on demand publications.
For the benefit of Fiery Dragon and other Canadian print publishers: Legal Deposit is the section of the National Library Act that obliges Canadian publishers to send two copies of everything they publish to the National Library of Canada. If you print fewer than 100 copies you only have to send one to NLC. One copy becomes a circulating copy through the Interlibrary Loan system and the other becomes a preservation copy that is physically stabilized and preserved forever.
These books are then catalogued in Amicus. Amicus is a powerful searching tool for librarians and book-store owners -- although I suspect that the latter group under-uses it. It is an online catalogue of the NLC's entire collection, as well as a Union Catalogue of hundreds of reporting libraries throughout the country. I live and die by Amicus in my library.
Electronic publications are treated a bit differently, though. So I'll give you the info and contact numbers off-list.
Cheers
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