Hi Everyone!
I can't find the thread where I originally read about possibly getting old PA ISBN numbers deleted, so apologies if this is duplicate. I wanted to share a few things I found out.
The email address I found on here was for Cheryl Patrick [email protected] I sent her a nice li'l email and explained the fact that I've been released from my contracts by PA, but that my books were still for sale on BN and Amazon (etc). This is her reply:
We are showing these titles listed as out of print in our database. Because the ISBN numbers belong to PublishAmerica I will need for them to tell me to delete them. Maybe you can email the ISBN Agency at [email protected] and see if they have special rules for this type of situation.
thank you,
Cheryl Patrick
[email protected]
Editorial Specialist - RR Bowker Books in Print
Then, I sent an email to the isbn-san email address that Cheryl provided, and this is the reply I received:
KJ:
You can not delete those ISBN’s. Since they were your previous publisher they assigned their ISBN to your book. It has to stay registered in Books in Print so that if anyone references the book they can still find it. In the book you will put previously published by their company name and their ISBN and below you put your company name and your ISBN.
Thank you,
Heidi Weber
Assistant Editor/US ISBN Agency
Finally, I emailed PA to see if there might be a way to get them to cooperate. I'm still (of course) waiting to hear back from them, and I don't think that they will agree to delete the ISBN numbers since they still own them. But, I wanted to share this info with people in case it all might come in handy.
Peace,
KJ
I can't find the thread where I originally read about possibly getting old PA ISBN numbers deleted, so apologies if this is duplicate. I wanted to share a few things I found out.
The email address I found on here was for Cheryl Patrick [email protected] I sent her a nice li'l email and explained the fact that I've been released from my contracts by PA, but that my books were still for sale on BN and Amazon (etc). This is her reply:
We are showing these titles listed as out of print in our database. Because the ISBN numbers belong to PublishAmerica I will need for them to tell me to delete them. Maybe you can email the ISBN Agency at [email protected] and see if they have special rules for this type of situation.
thank you,
Cheryl Patrick
[email protected]
Editorial Specialist - RR Bowker Books in Print
Then, I sent an email to the isbn-san email address that Cheryl provided, and this is the reply I received:
KJ:
You can not delete those ISBN’s. Since they were your previous publisher they assigned their ISBN to your book. It has to stay registered in Books in Print so that if anyone references the book they can still find it. In the book you will put previously published by their company name and their ISBN and below you put your company name and your ISBN.
Thank you,
Heidi Weber
Assistant Editor/US ISBN Agency
Finally, I emailed PA to see if there might be a way to get them to cooperate. I'm still (of course) waiting to hear back from them, and I don't think that they will agree to delete the ISBN numbers since they still own them. But, I wanted to share this info with people in case it all might come in handy.
Peace,
KJ