: Re: ISBN codes for privately sold books? We are starting a community site for budding authors. Here the young writers send a pdf files of there writing and we get them printed at a lower prices

An ISBN is the book industry's standard "ordering number" for a book. If you want to sell a book through bookstores or most online publishers, you pretty much have to get an ISBN.

If you are only publishing through your own local network, and no one in that network requires an ISBN, than I guess you don't need one.

By the way, they're not that difficult to get. When I published my first book the publisher took care of that, but for my second book I got my own ISBN. I bought a block of ten so I still have nine for future projects. I just checked current pricing: In the US, it's 1 for 5, 10 for 0, 100 for 5, or 1000 for 00. In many countries they are free. Getting them is no hassle. Again, speaking of the US, you just go to the Bowkers website, create an account, and give them your credit card number. You then use their web site to enter the title and author for each ISBN.

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