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| Subject | Re: Wasn't Albert Einstein wrong about that???? |
| From | Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> |
| References | (7 earlier) <584EF44D.51C@ix.netcom.com> <XnsA6DC71B91917taustingmail@69.16.179.42> <8u0u4cpb67q0vh51upff9bbenr30o62c70@reader80.eternal-september.org> <XnsA6DC880DB81A3taustingmail@69.16.179.42> <au6u4cp1vu6eh4jku097df82eg55fjtqtm@reader80.eternal-september.org> |
| Message-ID | <XnsA6DCB2BA12722taustingmail@69.16.179.42> (permalink) |
| Organization | Forte - www.forteinc.com |
| Date | 2016-12-12 17:34 -0700 |
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Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote in
news:au6u4cp1vu6eh4jku097df82eg55fjtqtm@reader80.eternal-september.
org:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:22:28 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying
> Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote in
>>news:8u0u4cpb67q0vh51upff9bbenr30o62c70@reader80.eternal-septembe
>>r. org:
>>
>>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:10:45 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying
>>> Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote in
>>>>news:584EF44D.51C@ix.netcom.com:
>>>>
>>>>> It's not a fake ISBN oor bogus barcodes,
>>>>
>>>>Yes, it is exactly that.
>>>>
>>>>> It's an EBOOK.
>>>>
>>>>("Mocked up" to look like a paper book. Dumbass.)
>>>>
>>>>Ebooks get standard ISBN nubmers, just like any other.
>>>
>>> Not necessarily.
>>
>>They don't always get them, no, but if they do, it's a standard
>>ISBN, not the retarded fake that dumbass faked on his fake
>>"mockup" of a fake ebook that looks like a fake printed book.
>
> Oh, I didn't waste time actually looking at that.
It looked it was created by a moron who has never actually seen a
real ISBN. Or Starmaker.
>
>>From what I understand, once you cough up the cash to get ISBNs,
>>you actually get a sizable block of them at a time, so the
>>nominal cost to add them to the ebook edition (which, IIRC, has
>>to be different from the paper edition) is pretty close to zero.
>
> It depends how many you buy. You can buy them individually, or
> in blocks ranging from 10 to something ridiculous -- five or six
> digits.
>
> A single ISBN is $125. Apparently some people are actually
> stupid enough to do that. Ten are $295 (currently on sale for
> $250) . 100 are $575. $1,500 gets you a thousand.
>
> All of these prices have gone up recently; a few years back I
> bought a thousand, and that cost me $1,000, not $1,500. I
> suspect the boom in self-publishing is responsible.
>
> (I've only used maybe thirty so far out of that thousand, but I
> figure I'm all set for life now.)
>
> And yes, the ebook and paper edition must have different
> numbers. In fact, every edition with a different price is
> supposed to have a different ISBN, though nobody actually
> bothers for ebooks. (They do for paper, since otherwise
> bookstores using scanners can ring up the wrong price.)
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