IT systems will need to cope with new 13-digit book numbering system The publishing industry has been warned it is facing its own "Y2K" when it switches over to a new ISBN numbering system from 1 ...

Indie authors often find success in the digital publishing arena but how many titles do they actually sell? Unlike the traditional publishing industry the average self-published title does not have an ...

According to some reports, it just became a whole lot more expensive to be an author. Bowker, the US agency overseeing ISBN numbers, announced this week that a block of ten numbers would go from $250 ...

There is good news for authors and publishers of books and journals. They can now obtain their International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for their books ...