[FM Discuss] [IAEP] ISBN Numbers Summary.

[adam hyde]

On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 17:17 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:38 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> If the content changes, it's a new edition and should have a new ISBN.

I asked this to Lulu and they said it should work like that but in
reality it doesnt matter. You can continually update content and keep
the same ISBN

adam


> 
> Treat FM releases just like SL releases; if you release new manuals
> twice a year to Amazon, a block of ten will still last for a few
> years.  Multiplying languages will eat up numbers -- but maybe you
> should publish a multilingual guide instead, or conserve ISBNs for
> languages which are going to sell > N copies of the manual (based on
> data from the previous "edition").
> 
> Don't pay $200 to Lulu for an ISBN, that's highway robbery!  As you
> found, you can buy blocks of 10 directly; that's the way to go.
> (FWIW, I've got a block of 10 myself, but then the manuals would be
> published by "Ahuas Emigre Press" -- better to get a block of 10 for
> sugarlabs.)
>  --scott
> 
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