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guildofblades:
>>How they manage to do that is simple, they don't actually register your book under that ISBN so the only point of having that ISBN is to have it sitting in an Amazon database and be displayed on Amazon.com. No one can actually find your book outside of amazon with that ISBN.<<
Which is not a bad thing as far as that goes. It just means they're using that block of ISBNs as internal SKU numbers effectively, since the rest of their system is set up to use ISBNs in that manner. They have removed the need for you to buy an ISBN in order to sell through their marketplace, but they aren't "giving" you an ISBN that you can apply and use elsewhere. If you want to play in another sandbox, you'll need to buy your own ISBn numbers and assign and register them to your titles.
Ryan S. Johnson
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redalastor:
Quote from: guildofblades on May 23, 2009, 03:23:20 PM
Which is not a bad thing as far as that goes. It just means they're using that block of ISBNs as internal SKU numbers effectively, since the rest of their system is set up to use ISBNs in that manner. They have removed the need for you to buy an ISBN in order to sell through their marketplace, but they aren't "giving" you an ISBN that you can apply and use elsewhere. If you want to play in another sandbox, you'll need to buy your own ISBn numbers and assign and register them to your titles.
My point is not that their offer is worthless, it's that it's deceptive. I'm sure most people who sign up for this service believe they have a bona fide ISBN that can serve the same purpose as one they would have bought themselves. It's not right for them to say "we are going to give you an ISBN and put your book into our marketplace" when they only thing they'll really give you is the latter.
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