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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Replying to @vgr and @jdbb
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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Not allowed to sell/assign isbns to other publishers by the rules…
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Afraid so. Whole point is compliance with arbitrariness of database gods.
Though suspended reason seems to have set up a far more solid operation than mine anyway. Why did you cheap out on isbns dude? You’ve clearly put in vast effort everywhere else… those volumes look nice.


