![]() Copyright © 2017 Fiona Raven and Glenna Collett. The excerpt above is from Book Design Made Simple, Second Edition, chapter 70, Obtaining a bar code, page 451. Read more: Your field trip to the bookstore » We address the topic in our blog post called How to price your book. ![]() Have you decided on your book’s retail price? Now that’s a hard one. Getting related infoĭon’t have an ISBN yet? Read about why and how to get one in this article about your copyright page.Īre you wondering where the book subject category comes from (“POETRY” in the above example)? Find out in our separate article about official book subject headings. If you are using a book printer that doesn’t offer a free barcode, go to Create Bar Codes, where the cost is $10. Move the barcode into position, but take care not to enlarge or shrink it, as doing so may affect its scanning readability. Place the cover template on your book cover, then using your Selection Tool, drag the frame sides in to fit around the barcode (this will hide the rest of the template). This indicates there is no data encoded.Ī free barcode is included on any cover template from POD printers such as Amazon KDP and IngramSpark. If you choose not to encode your retail price, the add-on is 90000. Books priced at $99.99 or higher use the add-on 59999. A book priced at $3.00 in USD would have the add-on 50300. ![]() An add-on of 51095 encodes the price $10.95 in USD. dollars (USD), and six is the designation for Canadian dollars (CAD). The first digit is the currency indicator. If you choose to encode your price, you’ll decide what the five digits will be in the five-digit price add-on. The larger barcode to the left is the encoded ISBN, and the smaller barcode to the right is the encoded price.īefore obtaining a book barcode, you’ll need to decide whether to encode your retail price. The Bookland EAN is the barcode used by the book industry. Obtaining a book barcodeīarcodes are scannable codes that allow booksellers to automatically capture an ISBN (and retail price, if encoded). Read about the ins and outs in this text from Book Design Made Simple. A book barcode can be cheap, or it can be free take your pick. Two numbers are encoded in the book barcode: the ISBN and the price. A book barcode goes on the back cover of your book.
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