Think of the ISBN as a serial number for your book. Unlike book titles and author names, the ISBN is always unique. Details of the book, such as size, pages, type of bind, author, publisher, etc are associated with the ISBN. We encourage authors to get their own ISBN, as it is free and easy to do in Canada. If you have no plan to put the book into the retail market there’s no need to even have an ISBN. The EAN barcode for a book will be created from the ISBN and is a simple process that should cost you next to nothing. So, don’t spend hundreds on one from unscrupulous web services! For more information visit the Author’s Toolkit .

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Q: Who is the publisher?

We believe that the person who owns the rights to the title, puts up the money to edit and format the book, pays for the printing, markets and sells the book is the publisher. So this means, if you are using publishing services, you are the publisher. Companies like Blitzprint provide services that assist you in publishing. Take pride in the fact that this is your book in every sense and wear the badge of publisher proudly, you earned it. If, on the other hand, a company agrees to buy the rights of the title from you and take on the task of getting the book to market with their time, money and effort then they are the publisher and you have just been “published”. Typically getting “published” involves sending query letters to many publishers in the hopes they will read and accept your manuscript for publication.

What is an ISBN?

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