On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM, C. Scott Ananian <csc...@cscott.net> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:38 PM, David Farning <dfarn...@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. > > 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.
Can we treat bug fixes the same in both situations? It is nice to get back to communicating in terms I understand:) Lulu allows the manual maintainer to push updates of a manual between versions. Can we consider any thing we call 'Essential Sugar .84' as one ISBN regardless of bug fixes(small editorial changes)? 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"). That makes sense. Each language gets it's own ISBN. For us laymen, the ISBN is the _only_ identifier necessary to order a book:) > 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.) Ok thanks, I think I will order the ISBNs in the name of Floss Manuals. For those of you on the FM list who don't know Scott, he was a software developer at OLPC and owner of http://ahuasemigre.com/ :) > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
