Bought a block of 100 isbns because convinced me the publishing industry databases treat you as a “big boy” self-publisher if you have a 100-block.
My old block of 10 still has a few left. I actually didn’t bother assigning ISBNs to most of my kindle-only ebooks.
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I’ll use up 4 for my 2-volume art of gig (print+ebook) so that leaves me with 96 to use use up over the rest of my life 😆
At 2/book if I do print for all, I can do 48 more.
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Assuming about 10 slots are committed to ongoing projects or archive reissues, I’m open to ideas for 38 isbn-ed book-like artifacts, both e- and p-
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Gonna write novellas. 1 fat mainstream book = 4-6 novellas.
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Hehehe isbnfts
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serious take-havers laughing off monkey jpgs and meanwhile in the real world we buy 100-packs of magic numbers to self-publish books
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I mean 38 ideas by me… don’t really have the energy to publish other people
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But maybe I could do selected random things by others 🤔
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I have a weird aversion to waste of any sort, so now feeling a completist itch to hit 100 titles by any means necessary
Here’s a literally vacuous idea: a blank notebook with my better twitter aphorisms in the footers
Do maps have isbns?
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Dammit, coffee mugs can’t have isbns
But here’s some non-book things that do:
Maps, coloring books, puzzle books, pamphlets and brochures
Can’t do posters and art prints but can do chapters and charts from books if sold unbundled
cds but not dvds
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“Broadsides/broadsheets; Broadsides are eligible for ISBNs if the content is not serial in nature. A broadside, also called a broadsheet, is a large sheet of paper, newspaper-size, which is printed, almost poster-like, on one side.”
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There will be a ribbonfarm puzzle book 💪
Probably a graphic novel too
Coloring book would be too lolcow
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I’m oddly attracted to the idea of doing a true pamphlet… poorly printed, saddle-stitched conspiratorial rant about something
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I’m a fundamentally junky person 🤔
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New life ambition, sell a 3D printed object with a UPC
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This is almost worth it just for the jokes
But also, for getting me thinking extended universe… budget Kevin Feige
If I can come up with a thematically coherent 50-title catalog of the ribbonfarm extended universe, that will be an interesting quixotic quest to complete
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ISBNs will go obsolete the week after I finish my quest, replaced by sha-256 hashes or something
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