This may be a long question, but please hang in there with me.
I know that reviewers, Barnes and Noble, and such won’t take a book unless it has an ISBN number. And the only way you can get one is through a publisher. So after reading Dan Poynter’s book, The Self-Publishing Manual, I started my own publishing company last year called Weaving Dreams Publishing in order to get an ISBN number and my book published. I know that reviewers want a 4 month lead for the publishing date from the time you actually have the printed book in hand. You can’t get the printed book in hand until you have the ISBN number. Now that creates a problem for me as I don’t have the money for the ISBN number. This brings up a couple of questions that may be facing others.
I have been told it is possible to pre-sell a book from the time of the printing to the actual publishing date as long as you put a pre-publication edition notice on the book. That is fine. Which brings me to my first question.
Can you pre-sell your book with a set publication date in order to get the money for the ISBN number so that you can print the book, distribute it to who pre-bought it, and get it out to the reviewers?
OR
Can you pre-sell your book with a set publication date, print it, and then distribute it to those who bought it and then get an ISBN number for it and reprint it for normal distribution? And how would this affect copyright?
OR
Can you pre-sell your book with a set publication date, print it, and distribute it to those who bought it and then revise your book in some way to get an ISBN number for the revised book to print for normal distribution? And how would this affect copyright? And does this mean then you have two books out?
I have a list of people who want to buy my book and keep asking me when they can. I keep telling them I am waiting to get the ISBN number. So I guess the main question is how to get the book to those who want it, stay within the realm of ISBN numbers and copyrights, and do it all before December of this year? That makes 4 questions.
Thank you to all of you who have read this long post and hope someone or several someone’s can help me!
Blessings and Thanks!!!!
Susie
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