I have a book to publish and I want to do it myself|||If you use Amazon's print on demand service, they provide the ISBN number included in the cost. I have done self-publishing for a number of years and you should really consider print on demand. Otherwise you will need to print at least 1,000 copies of a book to get a decent price and you'll have several thousands tied up in inventory. With print on demand you pay more per copy but you print just a few copies. Using Amazon's print on demand also gets you listed on Amazon, which I have found to be the best channel for small publishers. The big book wholesalers (Baker %26amp; Taylor and the like) are a waste - they don't try to sell your title, they just take orders, then return books like crazy and charge you the freight. B%26amp;T returned a book to me as "damaged" because it had tire tread marks from a fork lift truck across two pages in the middle of the book. I don't own a forklift, they do - but guess who took it in the @ss and had to credit them? Use Amazon and print on demand, that is the best advice I can give you.
(sorry for the rant)
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