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Two books about selling on Amazon that everybody should take a look at. The first is Steve Weber’s “The Home Based Bookstore”, which describes in detail the art of selling through Amazon Marketplace. The second is Aaron Shepard’s “Aiming at Amazon” a publishing business plan that focuses on Amazon sales. Finally, if you’re interested in the publishing system I use to make my living, and for which I’ve walked away from many trade contract offers, I summed it all up in “Print-on-Demand Book Publishing”, not to be confused with subsidy publishing.

Morris Rosenthal

Aaron Shepard’s Publishing Page

https://www.smashwords.com/

https://kdp.amazon.com/community/forum.jspa?forumID=13

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http://www.writerscafe.co.uk/

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-epubtut/index.html

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The International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique[1][2] numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digitStandard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin,[3] for the booksellers and stationers WHSmith and others in 1965.[4]

The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO 2108.[4] However, the 9-digit SBN code was used in the United Kingdom until 1974. An SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit “0”. ISO has appointed the International ISBN Agency as the registration authority for ISBN worldwide and the ISBN Standard is developed under the control of ISO Technical Committee 46/Subcommittee 9 TC 46/SC 9. TheISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978.[5]

Since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with “Bookland” European Article Number EAN-13s.[6]

Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure; however, this can be rectified later.[7]

Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), identifies periodical publications such as magazines.