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Post by Ken on Jun 14, 2021 7:14:53 GMT
Where about in the World are you?
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Post by benziger on Jun 14, 2021 10:18:06 GMT
From the ISBN you can see - the language region - the publisher - the book number and - the control number
Therefore, ISBNs cannot be moved to another publisher. If a publisher uses Lulu or Amazon or ... only as a printer, the publisher remains the same...
IngramSpark gives you an ISBN "for free" if you pay the upset fee. In Canada or France, ISBNs cost nothing at the ISBN agency or only a registration fee (if you live there). A single ISBN is always very expensive, packs of 10 cheaper, packs of 100 even cheaper. How many books have you already written?
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Post by Ken on Jun 14, 2021 11:42:06 GMT
IngramSpark gives you an ISBN "for free" if you pay the upset fee ??
Clarify please.
Not my experience for a print book.
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rayme
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Post by rayme on Jun 14, 2021 12:10:52 GMT
From the ISBN you can see - the language region - the publisher - the book number and - the control number
Therefore, ISBNs cannot be moved to another publisher. If a publisher uses Lulu or Amazon or ... only as a printer, the publisher remains the same...
IngramSpark gives you an ISBN "for free" if you pay the upset fee. In Canada or France, ISBNs cost nothing at the ISBN agency or only a registration fee (if you live there). A single ISBN is always very expensive, packs of 10 cheaper, packs of 100 even cheaper. How many books have you already written? I’ve written and published seven books. This one was my second, and I think it’s about time I retired it from Lulu, where the royalties are awful, customer service is abysmal, and I have to buy a new proof copy every time I fix something, in order to get the new version back on Amazon, something I’ve never had to do with CreateSpace or KDP. I’ll eventually take my first book off Lulu as well. My third book was published by an indie publishing house in the States, who used Lulu for distribution, but they eventually went off them (the CEO always regretted dealing with Lulu in the first place), and they'll be re-publishing my paperback on KDP (which is what they switched to) to get higher royalties. Lulu is a racket. When someone buys a book published through Lulu on Amazon, the royalties are pocket change; it’s insulting and grotesque. I wish I went with CreateSpace from the very beginning, and if I could go back to 2012, when I published my first two books, I would. My royalties are WAY better through KDP. Anyway, you live, you learn.
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Post by benziger on Jun 15, 2021 7:48:42 GMT
IngramSpark gives you an ISBN "for free" if you pay the upset fee ??
Clarify please. Not my experience for a print book. see here: www.ingramspark.com/free-isbns
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Post by Ken on Jun 15, 2021 8:02:08 GMT
Thanks. Yes, I’ve read that so many times now. What is missing in these conversations is that IngramSparks do offer free ISBNs on payment of the setup fee BUT only if the client is in the USA.
Otherwise one has to supply their own.
What is really difficult that unlike Lulu where one can go though 95% of the publishing process without an ISBN with IngramSpark one cannot get past the first page of the setup.
I will be starting a new thread shortly “Adventures with IngramSpark” to write a few notes of my experience with them.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jun 16, 2022 9:55:23 GMT
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