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Hi @Waterstones - I've just noticed your disability section of your website comes under 'coping with personal problems' which is a bit icky. Disability is neither personal nor, indeed, a problem
Signed, a disabled gal who routinely gives you all their money
@KevinBeynon Something that could be done already with a QR code, of course.
Maybe there's room for more that an ISBN-13 though, like cover variant, print number, blah blah.
'Bookland': a fictitious country, with the 978 prefix allocated in the EAN system to make the old 10 digit ISBNs cataloguable. (But it's still a real place)
When multiple volumes sell as a single product, it needs its own ISBN. Assign ISBNs to the single volumes also, even if they are not individually for sale. ONIX provides an 'internal use only' sales restriction to support this.
How do I select a BISAC Subject Code? Follow the guidance by BISG, who also properly point out that they are not subject matter experts on your book and will not pick codes for you. https://t.co/o43OWrN6JF
HTML: it does not define how things look, but instead is about what things mean. HTML says “this is a heading”, and HTML readers applying styling that interprets it.
Subject ... codes ... in ... spaaaaaaaaaaaaace! Why not code up your dwarf planets with one of the Thema '1Z: Space, planets & extraterrestrial locations' qualifiers?
As well as regular time qualifiers (e.g. '3KL: c 1000 CE to c 1500'), Thema has codes relating to particular periods in national histories – e.g. '3KL-IE-N: Norman Ireland (1169 to c 1350)'
Look at the clever way @TheHistoryPress are using BIC place qualifiers on their website to show books of local interest: https://t.co/uMuRGKK9Cs … This would work for fiction as well!