Whether you’ve decided to use your book as a top-of-funnel marketing and branding opportunity, or whether you simply have a story you need to tell, self-publishing makes your book available to the masses. Self-publishing allows you to show off your ideas in front of the true decision-makers, the readers. Unless you already have a built-in audience or previous experience in publishing, it can be difficult to get your work in front of decision-makers. Hundreds of thousands of books are self-published every year, and there’s no way to keep up with them all. But the simple truth is that traditional gatekeepers - literary agents and editors at publishing houses - simply don’t have the bandwidth to determine the value of every story. Through an agreement with the U.S.Some people view self-publishing as a failure, chosen only when no other options remain. For publishers who intend on utilizing book distributors and would like an ISBN with their company listed as the registrant, we offer the Publisher Package. This publishing solution is an easy and economical method to obtain ISBN numbers and barcodes.

The Self-Publisher Package follows the ISBN terms and the numbers we provide are legitimate and cause no disruption to the book industry supply chain. It is important to recognize that our customers retain all copyright and distribution rights, since the assigned unique international identifier associated to a particular publication (title/author).

ISBNs purchased through our service have a Publisher Identifier listed as Independent Publisher. Our publisher prefix denotes “Independent Publisher” as the registrant. Our Self-Publisher Package is geared towards providing publishing assistance to small authors/publishers who plan on distributing their publications by themselves or over the Internet (i.e., ). ISBN agency to specifically assist self-publishers, and Publisher Services is now one of the largest providers of individual ISBN assignments. These programs were devised with the U.S. ISBN assignments by either program enable our customers to retain all legal copyright and distribution rights. ISBN Agency to provide two distinct programs which abide by the ISBN requirements to enable independent self-publishers to obtain ISBN Numbers for books and other production/marketing services.

In 2004, we entered a formal partnership with the U.S.

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