Register Your Book: The Essential Guide to ISBNs, Barcodes, Copyright, and LCCNs

by David Wogahn

Save money, save time, protect your investment, and improve your marketing. Reference essential metadata details for ISBNs, barcodes, LCCNs, copyright. Avoid legal headaches, missed deadlines, and expensive fees. Learn how to look professional, not amateur-published. Protect your book’s hard-earned reader reviews. Ensure your freedom to use any book printer. Include your book in the directories used by major publishers. Keep your options open to use any book distributor. Prevent your advance reading copies from being re-sold online. “Straightforward and easy to digest, this is one how-to that every new author or publisher should have in their arsenal!" —Brooke Warner, Publisher of She Writes Press and author of Green-Light Your How Writers Can Succeed in the New Era of Publishing “...proceed with confidence in spending your time and dollars to get it done right, the first time.” —Carla King, Self-Pub Boot Camp “An essential guide to publishing identifiers, their benefits and uses, and (most importantly) what NOT to do.” —Laura Dawson, Numerical Gurus “…a thorough and deceptively simple guide for independent authors and publishers…” —Kim Anderson, Founder and CEO, The Reading Room

160 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

David Wogahn is the founder and president of AuthorImprints, and has taught self-publishing classes for Writer's Digest University, Jane Friedman, the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), and the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, among other publishing professional organizations.

David is the author of six books about self-publishing, including the Countdown to Book Launch® series. In 2012, he became the author of the first LinkedIn Learning course on the topic of self-publishing (Lynda at the time).

He has worked for the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, and was co-founder and COO of the first online publisher of sports team branded websites known today as the CBS College Sports Network.