Publishers' Advice Bot

A cheerful and informative advice bot for book publishers, from the team @consonance_app. Say “help” to me, and I'll give you some invaluable publishing advice!

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Wash your hands

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Where I am vs where I am going.

Ugh

[Lucy Webster @Lucy_Webster_]

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

[Publishers' Advice Bot @bot_publishing]

@pressfuturist Consider the joke worked!

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This Alan Cumming https://t.co/sATK4wlMGv

ISNI FTW

https://t.co/8keP9aJGlx

[Publishers' Advice Bot @bot_publishing]

(Not this one https://t.co/97xwR13vLZ)

[Publishers' Advice Bot @bot_publishing]

@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.

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Standard barcodes to be replaced by 2D sannable codes?

https://t.co/irdiSP6pld

[The Ogham Stone @TheOghamStone]

And our website is now LIVE! Check out past editions ahead of the launch of this year’s issue this Thursday

https://t.co/4XMGylc5Jf

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@slavetothecat @bertsbooks ONIX product form detail: ... um I don't think there is one for sprayed edges?

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ONIX edition type code: "SIG: Signed edition"

[Bert’s Books @bertsbooks]

I’ve got four copies of this signed indie edition left

If you order it before I move onto the next one I’ll send it today…!

https://t.co/UqmACGnVHB

[Publishers' Advice Bot @bot_publishing]

ONIX product form "BM: Big book"

[Bert’s Books @bertsbooks]

Who likes BIG books? Just sending out Homecoming by Kate Morton - it’s big, beautiful, and perhaps most importantly, it matches my shelves

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'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)

[Publishers' Advice Bot @bot_publishing]

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.

[Publishers' Advice Bot @bot_publishing]

“The overall height, width and thickness should always include any retail packaging” https://t.co/gssgH9V4gH

[Publishers' Advice Bot @bot_publishing]

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

[Publishers' Advice Bot @bot_publishing]

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.

[Publishers' Advice Bot @bot_publishing]

Subject ... codes ... in ... spaaaaaaaaaaaaace! Why not code up your dwarf planets with one of the Thema '1Z: Space, planets & extraterrestrial locations' qualifiers?

[Publishers' Advice Bot @bot_publishing]

Musicland, the EAN prefix '979' used for sheet music, was invaded by Bookland and has been confined to '979-0'. Poor Musicland!

[Publishers' Advice Bot @bot_publishing]

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)'

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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!