1. If you want to distribute and sell in the formal book market, you must go through the publishing house. Because books must have a book number when they are issued.
The ISBN is uniformly distributed and distributed by the General Administration of Press and Publication. If you want to get the ISBN, you must apply to the publishing house and pay a certain ISBN management fee.
2. If the book is not publicly released but circulated within the unit or taken as a souvenir by individuals, you can directly find professionals or institutions to proofread and typeset without going through the publishing house, and then find a printing factory to print it.
Books published at their own expense and using serial numbers have limitations in terms of distribution and title evaluation. The serial number cannot be published in Xinhua Bookstore, but can be published in other second-tier channels or bookstores, and it can be used to evaluate the title of the book.
However, in some demanding areas, a single ISBN is required. Therefore, if you publish a book with a professional title, you must know the local evaluation criteria before publishing, and then decide which book number to choose. In short, you can choose the publication number of the book at your own expense, but it has limitations in some aspects.
Extended data:
Publishing books at one's own expense is a form of publishing books, and domestic publishing can be divided into publishing books at public expense and publishing books at one's own expense. Books published at their own expense are generally academic, professional, personal autobiography, poems, essays, essays or other books with small print runs, or books that publishers are unwilling to bear market risks and publish at public expense, and the authors want to publish them formally to show their literary, artistic or academic achievements.
Books published at their own expense are also official publications approved by relevant state departments. Therefore, it is necessary to go through strict steps such as topic selection declaration, three reviews and three proofreading. After the publishing house allocates ISBN through topic selection, it also needs to enter the formal printing process, and finally a book with complete form and in line with national publishing regulations can be produced.
Ordinary book number
Single ISBN: A book is assigned to a publishing house by the State Press and Publication Administration. The management fee of a single ISBN is generally more than 10,000 yuan. ISBN can be publicly issued in any sales channel. The single book number can be used to evaluate professional titles.
Serial number. A set of books designated by the General Administration of Publishing has a book number (individual publishers may have 4-6 books in a set). The management fee for publishing a single book number is relatively low, generally around 6000-8000. Books with serial numbers cannot be priced or distributed in Xinhua Bookstore.
Hong Kong ISBN: The standard ISBN used by publishing houses in Hong Kong when publishing books. The price of a regular Hong Kong ISBN in the mainland market is around 2000. Because of Hong Kong's administrative autonomy, HKISBN cannot be found by the General Administration of Press and Publication in the Mainland. Publishing HKISBN in the Mainland needs to go through relevant administrative regulations in the Mainland, otherwise it will be regarded as illegal copying.
It cannot be used to evaluate professional titles, because HKISBN is not recognized in most parts of the mainland, but only in a few remote schools or regions.
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