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Oct 29, 2026
Judith BrilesHOST
So have your ISBN numbers.
Judith BrilesHOST
Okay.
Judith BrilesHOST
So your ISBNs, if you're good, and I put
Nick ZelingerGUEST
my ISBNs, all of them together on
Judith BrilesHOST
the copyright page.
Judith BrilesHOST
And we'll come back and kiss the front matter, back matter, because we're going to cover some of this again today.
Judith BrilesHOST
All right.
Judith BrilesHOST
So the ISBNs go there.
Joshua SpellmanHOST
Now, this could be partly because it's newer, but it's more likely because it remains fairly hidden.
Joshua SpellmanHOST
Rondino only sells his books on his own website, and his books have no ISBN, so they're self-published.
Joshua SpellmanHOST
And without an ISBN, they're not able to be sold by major retailers or distributors, nor have they been added to any major library catalogs.
Joshua SpellmanHOST
I was not able to find a record for it in WorldCat.
Joshua SpellmanHOST
But in addition to distribution, another reason might be because no one else has been able to independently verify Rondina's findings.
Avery CrumrineGUEST
That's why I make sure that you have to do certain things before you can learn other things because it's overwhelming.
Avery CrumrineGUEST
When you have to learn about ISBN, self-publishing, traditional publishing, when you have to learn about formatting and covers, I'm just using a book as an example, but this can be related to all sorts of fields.
Avery CrumrineGUEST
But when you have so much information, you're like, where do I start? You know, what is the first step? And that can be really overwhelming.
Avery CrumrineGUEST
Obviously, there's like a little give and take to this because you may need information on how to actually do something that you're working on right now.
Tina SchwartzGUEST
It's published.
Tina SchwartzGUEST
It's got an ISBN.
Tina SchwartzGUEST
It's out there.
Tina SchwartzGUEST
And they're like, what? So I get that very frequently.
Thomas Umstattd Jr.GUEST
And it will create these memories on a per thread basis.
Thomas Umstattd Jr.GUEST
So let's say you create a metadata bot or an ISBN bot that just goes to all your books and make sure all of the publisher and description and title and tags and all of that is correct, not just on Amazon, but everywhere else, right? That's this really boring job.
Thomas Umstattd Jr.GUEST
No human wants to do it.
Thomas Umstattd Jr.GUEST
But the bot's very happy to kind of Roam the internet, making sure all of the information is correct.
Cat ConnorGUEST
You do need an ISBN, but...
Cat ConnorGUEST
You don't actually have to pay for one if you're just starting out, right? You can use an Amazon free one.
Cat ConnorGUEST
There's nothing wrong with using those.
Cat ConnorGUEST
Or you can go to Draft2Digital and they will provide you with a free ISBN as well because you need one for each format.
Cat ConnorGUEST
The only thing with those is...
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Cat ConnorGUEST
We had wine.
Cat ConnorGUEST
It was catered.
Cat ConnorGUEST
The whole thing cost me nothing, which was amazing, apart from the books that I had to buy to have there.
Eva GordonGUEST
I can't afford your books.
Eva GordonGUEST
And I go, all you need to do is go to your local library and say, I want to get Animal Michael files and here's the ISBN and the librarian will order it for you.
Eva GordonGUEST
And simple as that, if you can't afford books, that's where you go.
Eva GordonGUEST
I'm also starting a sub stack and I haven't really gotten into it, but I'll have, I guess you'll have all those links in your library.
Melinda KucseraHOST
it so how are you like affording life there like did you have like a war chest or you know a lot of money saved
L. E. BendonGUEST
up or I had saved a lot of money and you know what if I hadn't invested in uh publishing two more books this year I'd still have a lot of money but I yeah I'm slowly earning here I'm getting music work um as I said I'm able to sell my books here now as well uh I had to go through a separate battle to get Indian ISBNs to make an India edition of everything so I I could sell it for Indian prices because no one pays the same here that they would pay in the UK or the US for a book.
L. E. BendonGUEST
So that was quite a challenge as well.
L. E. BendonGUEST
So
Stacey SmekofskeHOST
So you can remember that because reconnecting with that original excitement is important.
Stacey SmekofskeHOST
When you lose the enthusiasm, when something tedious comes in, when Stacy comes in and says, oh, by the way, you need to buy your ISBNs today.
Stacey SmekofskeHOST
You know, sometimes that gets in the way.
Stacey SmekofskeHOST
It's like, Stacy, like I bet that totally threw me off my game.
Troy LambertHOST
But some of you have never experienced that, right? Because that's not your groove.
Troy LambertHOST
But what I mean is, even if you get up at 11 o'clock, If the first thing you do before you open social media, open the news or anything like that, anything that's distracting is open your manuscript.
Troy LambertHOST
Then when that email comes in later that day that says you need to buy your ISBNs today, you've already made your good writing decisions in the morning.
Stacey SmekofskeHOST
Yeah.
JordanHOST
But if I decide to do it, I might do it.
JordanHOST
I mean, it's got an ISDN number.
JordanHOST
I can sell it if I want.
Erik NagelHOST
Jordan, let's record the audio book.
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