Content tagged with “publishing”

“This stands for ‘International Standard Book Number.’ It’s meant to uniquely identify a printing of a text. These are issued from the International ISBN Agency . They are sold through resellers, specific to each country. The number has grown: The 9-digit British ‘SBN’ was created in the late 60s….”

“This book explains the book publishing industry, from the inside out. It starts with the authors, explains why they need agents, explains how the agents work with the publishers, and publishers with the distributors, the distributors with the retailers, etc. It does a masterful job of explaining…”

“This book is not about zines. (A ‘zine’ is an amateur, home-published ‘magazine’). The subtitle is key here: this is about the culture of zines. It’s not a how-to. It will not teach you how about make or distribute zines. It’s really about the people who make them, and why they do it. The author is…”