News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #53…

#292: ISBNs, ASINs, and all that. Amazon doesn’t make it a habit of listing ISBNs for ebooks. In fact, they so dominate the market that many authors are foregoing ISBNs. As far as I know, all my ebooks also have ISBNs, thanks to my wonderful formatter Donna Carrick (a great mystery writer in her own right—see The First Excellence). I encourage all indie writers to get an ISBN for their ebook. These are important for many reasons, but one big one: good stats on book sales provide useful info f...