I am still looking into that issue. An a related issue there is a question in the publish on demand industry of how to define a 'new edition' which requires a new ISBN.
One the other hand, when buying in blocks of 1000 the price drops to $1.50US per number. david On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > a good plan. > > Silly question...if we were to have smashing success and wish to > publish the Sugar Manual in half a dozen or more other languages, > would we need 5 separate numbers or would these be 5 variants on one > number? > > Not that we would use up 10 numbers quickly. Just wondering. > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM, David Farning <[email protected]> wrote: >> I spent a couple of hours researching of ISBNs and how they apply to FM and >> SL. >> >> An ISBN is the International Standard Book Number necessary for each >> book marketed to the book trade (bookstores and libraries). Bookstores >> will not order a book without an ISBN... mostly because they can't. >> Without an ISBN, there's no number for them to look up. >> >> This relates to Sugar Labs because Floss Manuals sells Sugar manuals >> on Amazon. How cool is that? While nobody is quiting their day jobs >> yet.... The synergy between FM and SL had great potential. >> >> The work flow currently is: >> 1. FM/SL booksprint to create the content >> 2. FM publishes the content. Current they use http://www.lulu.com/ >> 3. FM makes the content more widely available via resellers such as Amazon. >> >> The ISBN is the link between steps 2 and 3. For the geeks in the >> room, the ISBN represents a unique identifier for the book. >> >> Getting an ISBN >> >> From Lulu - The most straight forward to get an ISBN is to buy one >> directly from lulu. The Cost is about $150/ISBN. The problem is that >> Lulu owns the ISBN in the writers name. You can't transfer the ISBN >> to another publisher. >> >> From ISBN Broker - The ISBN Agency has authorize about 170 different >> organizations to sell 'blocks' of ISBNs to publishers in different >> geographicial regions. >> >> In New Zealand the national library gives away blocks of ISBNs in >> exchange for a donation of 2 copies of each book to the national >> library. Cost is the cost of printing and sending two books to New >> Zealand. >> >> In England the situation is similar. Cost 6 is six books for various >> English libraries. >> >> In the US http://www.bowker.com/ has exclusive rights to sell blocks of >> ISBNS. >> Cost is about. >> 10 ISBNs $245.00 >> 100 ISBNs $930.00 >> 1,000 ISBNs $1,570.00 >> >> Recomendation: >> >> Purchase a block of ten ISBNs from bowker in the name of Floss >> manuals. This allows us to identify FM as the publisher not lulu. >> >> Assign these ISBNs to new books as the come 'off the presses' as FM. >> >> After the first ten ISBNs are assigned, reassess the situation. >> >> If, this sounds reasonable, I'll buy the first block of ten in FM's >> name to get the ball rolling. >> >> david >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
