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Trond Knutsen replied to the topic Edition information out in the world in the discussion
ONIX and Metadata Issues via email on UP Commons 3 years agoHi Jana, we too became frustrated with how buried this was, and though we
still mark it in the Edition Number, for most books in 2nd editions (or
beyond) we also make it part of the subtitle, either the edition number or
we make clear that it is a revision/expansion/what-not (especially for our
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Trond Knutsen replied to the topic Open Access Metadata in the discussion
ONIX and Metadata Issues on UP Commons 3 years, 4 months agoOh and I should mention we don’t use CS (yet), we use Biblio for distribution, so I don’t know if CS actually allows an actual $0 price. But Biblio does.
Also everything that Robert said, he is always right.
Cheers,
Trond
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Trond Knutsen replied to the topic Open Access Metadata in the discussion
ONIX and Metadata Issues on UP Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHi Andrea, how we get around this is we have separate ISBNs for EPUB and Kindle (so we’re sending the exact same file but under a different ISBN as EPUB to Amazon), which allows us to price the OA EPUB as “unpriced” while the OA Kindle is priced at $0. It doesn’t make sense but it works. Until it doesn’t.
Trond Knutsen
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Trond Knutsen's profile was updated on UP Commons 4 years, 7 months ago