We welcome you with open arms and would love for you to be a part of our journey toward success and much adventure in the publishing business. But most of all, you have to have a passion and desire for writing and publishing. To assist you in your journey listed below is comprehensive information about the publishing industry, complete with contact information and tools to help you publish your book and succeed.
BOOKLAND EAN BAR CODE ORDERING
The following company provides the graphics and films for bar codes.
A Bookland EAN Bar Code Film Master Suppliers list is available from the ISBN Agency on their website at: http://www.isbn.org
ORDERING A U.S. COPYRIGHT
A U.S. copyright protects your work.
U.S. Copyright Office
Library of Congress
- 101 Independence Ave., SE
- Washington, D.C. 20559-6000
- Tel: (202) 707-3000
- www.Lcweb.loc.gov/copyright
Writers Guild of America, East, Inc.
- 55 West 57th St.
- New York, NY 10019
- Tel: (212) 767-7800
- Fax: (212) 582-1909
- www.wgae.org
- Writers Guild of America, West, Inc.
- www.wga.org
ISBN ORDERING
The following U.S. agency provides International Standard Book Numbers and Standard Address Numbers.
U.S. Agency of R.R. Bowker
- 630 Central Avenue
- New Providence, NJ 07974
- Tel: (888) 269-5372
- www.isbn.org
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CARD CATALOG NUMBER
Library of Congress numbers is essential if you want to sell your book to libraries.
- U.S. Copyright Office
- http://pcn.loc.gov/
Need help self-publishing your work? Consider one of the following:
nHouse Publishing, LLC
We allow the self-published author to publish through us, utilizing our resources, to eliminate any unnecessary mistakes usually unavoidable by little known authors. Authors retain all rights, maintain editorial control and choose the exact selection of services that best suits their goals.
Authorhouse
AuthorHouse™ exists to help authors achieve success -- by their definition. We provide a broad array of tools and services to allow authors to make their own choices throughout the publishing process. Authors retain all rights, maintain editorial control and choose the exact selection of services that best suits their goals. Our self publishing company allows every author to control his or her own publishing destiny.
Lulu
Lulu is changing the world of publishing by empowering authors to publish their work themselves for free with complete editorial and copyright control. Lulu.com has truly become home to a new economy. Millions of registered users and two million site visitors each month as well as offices in Raleigh, London, Toronto and Bangalore, enable Lulu customers to reach the globe.
Xlibris
Xlibris is a book publishing company created by authors, for authors. By focusing on the needs of creative writers and artists, and on how print on demand technology and new approaches can be applied in the publishing industry, we provide authors publishing services to help them get published.
Self Publishing, Inc
- 51 East 42nd Street, Suite 1202
- New York, NY 10017
- (800) 621-2556
- www.SelfPublishing.com
