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Originally Posted by koland
To be fair, when a new company is publishing the book, they can't stay on the same ASIN - the payouts go to different places and taxpayer ID's (individual vs. company).
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The ASIN does change, but that has nothing to do with pricing or taxpayer IDs. Those two things aren't tied together. The publishing company wants to own the ASIN and they also collect the monies and distribute the author her pay. ISBNs are assigned by bowker and those can stay with the book or not, but generally speaking the publishing company wants to own those.
Even smashwords makes a big thing about preferring that authors use the "free" ISBN rather than us paying for one. But there are advantages to owning your own--you can take it with you and use it elsewhere for each type (ePUB has one, then there is one for print, and one for .mobi.)
Any time an author involves another party, prices are going to go up. And *some* of the time the quality improves.
