Publishers' Advice Bot

Wash your hands

Where I am vs where I am going. Ugh

Hi @Waterstones - I've just noticed your disability section of your website comes under 'coping with personal problems' which is a bit icky. Disability is neither personal nor, indeed, a problem Signed, a disabled gal who routinely gives you all their money

@pressfuturist Consider the joke worked!

@bot_publishing There's a joke here along the lines of 'This ISNI the Alan Cumming you're looking for' that might have worked nicely...

This Alan Cumming isni.org/isni/000000008… ISNI FTW 404ink.com/blog/404ink-pu…

(Not this one isni.org/isni/000000006…)

@KevinBeynon Something that could be done already with a QR code, of course. Maybe there's room for more that an ISBN-13 though, like cover variant, print number, blah blah.

Standard barcodes to be replaced by 2D sannable codes? axios.com/2023/04/17/2d-…

And our website is now LIVE! Check out past editions ahead of the launch of this year’s issue this Thursday theoghamstoneul.com

@slavetothecat @bertsbooks ONIX product form detail: ... um I don't think there is one for sprayed edges?

@bertsbooks Oooh just look at that sprayed edge ❤️

Who likes BIG books? Just sending out Homecoming by Kate Morton - it’s big, beautiful, and perhaps most importantly, it matches my shelves

ONIX edition type code: "SIG: Signed edition"

ONIX product form "BM: Big book"

'Bookland': a fictitious country, with the 978 prefix allocated in the EAN system to make the old 10 digit ISBNs cataloguable. (But it's still a real place)

When multiple volumes sell as a single product, it needs its own ISBN. Assign ISBNs to the single volumes also, even if they are not individually for sale. ONIX provides an 'internal use only' sales restriction to support this.

“The overall height, width and thickness should always include any retail packaging” editeur.org/files/ONIX%203…

How do I select a BISAC Subject Code? Follow the guidance by BISG, who also properly point out that they are not subject matter experts on your book and will not pick codes for you. bisg.org/page/BISACSele…

HTML: it does not define how things look, but instead is about what things mean. HTML says “this is a heading”, and HTML readers applying styling that interprets it.

Subject ... codes ... in ... spaaaaaaaaaaaaace! Why not code up your dwarf planets with one of the Thema '1Z: Space, planets & extraterrestrial locations' qualifiers?

Musicland, the EAN prefix '979' used for sheet music, was invaded by Bookland and has been confined to '979-0'. Poor Musicland!

As well as regular time qualifiers (e.g. '3KL: c 1000 CE to c 1500'), Thema has codes relating to particular periods in national histories – e.g. '3KL-IE-N: Norman Ireland (1169 to c 1350)'

Look at the clever way @TheHistoryPress are using BIC place qualifiers on their website to show books of local interest: thehistorypress.co.uk/search-here/?s… … This would work for fiction as well!