Relatively few of the items I publish have ISBN numbers and I imagine that is true for a great deal of specialized content that might be properly classified as a "book."
For me the cost to get ISBNs for each of my titles in the 4 formats - hardback, paperback, CD-ROM, Ebooks in various flavors, would be more than $30,000 and I can't see where I would get a significant return on my investment. I know that over 15 years the 50 or so titles which have ISBNs have not sold significantly more than those without. On the other hand a repository is needed for bibliographic citations to the various editions and some way of distinguishing my "Me and Stonewall and Gen'l Lee Won the War" from the other out of copyright editions floating around out there. In each case I know what new content I have added in the way of rosters, indexes, Table of Contents, annotations, etc. that are not apparent to the casual browser of the title and author detail, but that isn't worth me paying Bowker $30,000. John Rigdon _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
