+1 a good plan.
Silly question...if we were to have smashing success and wish to publish the Sugar Manual in half a dozen or more other languages, would we need 5 separate numbers or would these be 5 variants on one number? Not that we would use up 10 numbers quickly. Just wondering. On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM, David Farning <dfarn...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > I spent a couple of hours researching of ISBNs and how they apply to FM and > SL. > > An ISBN is the International Standard Book Number necessary for each > book marketed to the book trade (bookstores and libraries). Bookstores > will not order a book without an ISBN... mostly because they can't. > Without an ISBN, there's no number for them to look up. > > This relates to Sugar Labs because Floss Manuals sells Sugar manuals > on Amazon. How cool is that? While nobody is quiting their day jobs > yet.... The synergy between FM and SL had great potential. > > The work flow currently is: > 1. FM/SL booksprint to create the content > 2. FM publishes the content. Current they use http://www.lulu.com/ > 3. FM makes the content more widely available via resellers such as Amazon. > > The ISBN is the link between steps 2 and 3. For the geeks in the > room, the ISBN represents a unique identifier for the book. > > Getting an ISBN > > From Lulu - The most straight forward to get an ISBN is to buy one > directly from lulu. The Cost is about $150/ISBN. The problem is that > Lulu owns the ISBN in the writers name. You can't transfer the ISBN > to another publisher. > > From ISBN Broker - The ISBN Agency has authorize about 170 different > organizations to sell 'blocks' of ISBNs to publishers in different > geographicial regions. > > In New Zealand the national library gives away blocks of ISBNs in > exchange for a donation of 2 copies of each book to the national > library. Cost is the cost of printing and sending two books to New > Zealand. > > In England the situation is similar. Cost 6 is six books for various > English libraries. > > In the US http://www.bowker.com/ has exclusive rights to sell blocks of ISBNS. > Cost is about. > 10 ISBNs $245.00 > 100 ISBNs $930.00 > 1,000 ISBNs $1,570.00 > > Recomendation: > > Purchase a block of ten ISBNs from bowker in the name of Floss > manuals. This allows us to identify FM as the publisher not lulu. > > Assign these ISBNs to new books as the come 'off the presses' as FM. > > After the first ten ISBNs are assigned, reassess the situation. > > If, this sounds reasonable, I'll buy the first block of ten in FM's > name to get the ball rolling. > > david > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep