: 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

@Annie587

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I have ordered many copies of my own books through Create Space, some of which have my own ISBN and others have a CS ISBN.

If you mean ordering books from Amazon per se rather than Create Space, I don't think I've ever done that, but why would you want to? If you order through Create Space, you get author pricing, which is much lower than the list price, even after subtracting the royalty you would get back. I'd be quite surprised if they stopped you from giving them money, though.

I don't know if the person who told you this was simply confused or if they didn't mean what you thought they meant or what.

I think the only differences between using a CS ISBN and your own ISBN on CS are: (a) if you use your own ISBN you have to buy it from Bowkers (or if you live outside the U.S., from your country's authorized source); (b) with your own ISBN you can't sell through CS's "library" channel"; (c) with your own ISBN your name shows up as the publisher, with CS's they show up as the publisher.

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