: Re: Purchasing copies of my own book with my own ISBN from Amazon prohibited? Someone told me that if I use my own ISBN on books I publish through Createspace that I would not be allowed to

@Samaraweera193

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You can definitely buy your own books from CreateSpace, even when you choose the free ISBN. Here's a gratuitous self promo of my book, Do Nothing, Get Rich : You're Never Too Lazy To Be Rich (amazon link), which has a CreateSpace provided ISBN and I have ordered author's copies which I can give away, etc.
Copies which you order from your own createspace account are quite a bit cheaper also.
The one issue you will notice is that he CreateSpace ISBN is registered to CreateSpace so your books show up as published by CreateSpace on amazon.com but not a big deal.
My book shows this:
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (July 31, 2013)

So, in summary, getting the CreateSpace provided, free ISBN doesn't cause any problems at all.
I really like the CreateSpace platform and it is linked directly to amazon's kindle (digital) books offering too. My book is available as a kindle book also.
And when your readers buy your hard copy you can provide the kindle book for free as I do.

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