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Originally Posted by kateharp
Yes, I am talking about the stores -- Sony says their store will not accept documents in without an ISBN number.
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If you are talking about the stores, then why did you specify in your post and
in your headline that you were talking about the
devices, and get rude with people who assumed that you meant what you said? People were supposed to ignore what you actually said, and guess that you meant something totally different? You might want to consider an apology.
Pholy is probably right about the ISBN being the database's primary key for most of those stores; it makes sense, since of course a database entry needs a unique key, and an ISBN is unique. It's also something that you should really obtain, not try to figure out how to get by without. It's a cost of doing business, like the cost of paper to mail off a manuscript used to be.
You're going about this backwards: you're trying to figure out which stores you can sell your book through most cheaply, regardless of their sales; you need to figure out which stores you can sell your book through most
effectively, regardless of their costs. That is, you're looking for the most profit, not the least expense. If it costs you nothing to publish through Outlet A but you only make $100 in revenue, while it costs you $50 to publish through outlet B and you make $1000 in revenue, you scare up the money and go with B, because the ROI is so much greater. If you can, you sell that book through both A and B, but if you have to pick one, you pick the one that brings in the most money, and if you have to live on dried beans and rice for a couple of weeks to afford it, I recommend making chili.