How To Publish Using a PDF

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ISRC CODES are needed for every CD that you publish.

ISRC CODES - find out what ISRC codes are, also where and how you get one. The ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is the international identification system for sound recordings and music videorecordings. Each ISRC is a unique and permanent identifier for a specific recording, to help identify recordings for royalty payments. It's assigned PER TRACK, not per CD.
It stays with a recording, so that if that same recording is re-released on a different CD (like a soundtrack). it has nothing to do with the song underneath. If you (or anyone) records different versions or remixes of the same song, each track should have its own ISRC code. ISRC CODES ARE FREE. No service charge. (Unlike the UPC Barcode.) HOW TO GET ONE

International Standard Recording Code

RIAA's informational page about ISRCs : (read FAQ at the bottom

WHERE TO GET A UPC BAR CODE

• Universal Product Code - Bar coding
  Getting a bar code involves registering with the Universal Code Council , or relying on a commercial service to do it for you.
  Bar coding allows sales tracking and many retailers, like Amazon and Tower Records, they won't carry your CD without it. READ MORE ABOUT THIS
  
  
• If you already have your UPC Barcode, the site link below will allow you to create the actual barcode image. Then just do a print screen and crop out the image. That way you've got a barcode image to use.
  Just make sure you select UPCA for the type under barcode symbology.
  http://www.idautomation.com/java/linearservlet.html
  
  Here's another that may be a little simpler:
  http://www.barcoding.com/upc/
  
  Once you get the image there (and you should generate it as a PNG format so there is no lossy compression), you do a right click on the image then Save As... to save it to a file. Don't just do a print screen, though, as the version that shows up on the screen is not the full size, so it loses information.
  
  
  
• Soundscan http://home.soundscan.com/ tracks sales and reports to MTV, VH1, Billboard Magazine. They all rely on bar codes. You need a UPC bar coded onto your CD to get on the professional map and enable national distribution. A UPC assigned and affixed to your CD also aids in distribution and helps prevent scams.

ORGANIZTIONS FOR WRITERS

• ASJA American Society of Journalists and Authors
  1501 Broadway, Suite 302
  New York, NY 10036
  Telephone: 212-997-0947
  Fax contracts to: 415-532-1324
  Email: http://www.asja.org/cw/cw.php
  Contracts Watch
  ASJA Freelance Writer Search , a service of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, connects those who need writers with more than 1,200 writers who have met exacting standards of professional achievement. Use Freelance Writer Search to locate writers for a wide range of editorial projects including books, articles, newsletters, corporate communications, ghostwriting, web copy, scriptwriting, speechwriting, and much more. Listings are free.
• The Authors Guild
  Over the last several years, the Authors Guild's Legal Department has successfully intervened and resolved hundreds of business and legal issues without the use of litigation.
• National Writers Union
  offers a Health Plan and http://www.nwu.org/join-nwu
• HTML Writers Guild
  "The Guild is the first and largest international association of web site design and web master developers.
• Publishers Liability Insurance
• FIND LITERARY AGENTS

The reporter is not a person, but a computer algorithm , honed to translate raw data such as corporate earnings reports and previews or sports statistics into readable prose. Algorithms are producing a growing number of articles for newspapers and websites, such as this one produced by Narrative Science: "Wall Street is high on Wells Fargo, expecting it to report earnings that are up 15.7 percent from a year ago when it reports its second quarter earnings on Friday, July 13, 2012," said the article on Forbes.com.

LICENSE AGREEMENT

Apple's mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement

How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books

I read EULAs so you don't have to. I've spent years reading end user license agreements, EULAs, looking for little gotchas or just trying to figure out what the agreement allows and doesn't allow.

I have never seen a EULA as mind-bogglingly greedy and evil as Apple's EULA for its new ebook authoring program.

Dan Wineman calls it “unprecedented audacity” on Apple's part. For people like me, who write and sell books, access to multiple markets is essential. But that's prohibited:

Apple, in this EULA, is claiming a right not just to its software, but to its software's output. It's akin to Microsoft trying to restrict what people can do with Word documents, or Adobe declaring that if you use Photoshop to export a JPEG, you can't freely sell it to Getty. As far as I know, in the consumer software industry, this practice is unprecedented.

Exactly: Imagine if Microsoft said you had to pay them 30% of your speaking fees if you used a PowerPoint deck in a speech.

Online Disputes Expose Publishers' Copyright Vulnerability
By Eriq Gardner IP Law & Business 03-06-2006
When book publishers rallied against Google's library book scanning project last year, they accused the tech giant of stealing. In a lawsuit filed in New York federal court, the publishers claimed that if Google Inc. made digital copies of library books available online for search purposes, the tech company would be committing massive copyright infringement. But then one book publisher, HarperCollins, tried to steal a page from its antagonist's playbook, announcing that it would make its entire backlist, about 20,000 titles, including such classics as"Charlotte's Web," available online. Publishers didn't have a problem --but book authors and their lawyers did a double take.

Google settlement: Changing Defaults
Back in 2004, Google felt quite strongly that its “Book Search” project was a fair use of copyrighted material. It kept pointing out that it wasn't displaying complete copies of books covered by copyright. Instead, it scanned the material and then displayed snippets from these books in response to queries. The bottom line: In 2004, Google thought it was shaping its conduct according to the law. But Google's lawyers also have to shape the working situation in which Google operates . That working situation, from 2004 until 10/8/08 has involved great bitterness coming from publishers who could otherwise be Google's allies. The pure legal principle of the fair use argument, weighed against that bitterness and the possibility of a win-win deal, had to defer.

SELF PUBLISH - HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN AUDIO BOOK:

86% Kindle Wins
7% Paperback
4% Hardcover
2% Audible Audio Edition
1% Mass Market Paperback

2015 Self Published ebooks: the surprising data from Amazon !
Hugh Howey, author of the bestselling, indie-original science fiction series Wool. In 2014 he published an important data-rich report on independent author earnings from ebooks sold on Amazon. Howey makes a good case that the "average" author earns more from a self published book than she would through one of the Big Five publishers, and, what's more, that this holds true for all sorts of outliers (the richest indie authors outperform the richest Big Five authors; less-prolific indies do better than less-prolific traditionals, etc). The most important point is that all the authors Howey studied lived and died by the largesse of one company: Amazon.

"You may have heard from other reports that e-books account for roughly 25% of overall book sales. But this figure is based only on sales reported by major publishers. E-book distributors like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, the iBookstore, and Google Play don't reveal their sales data. That means that self-published e-books are not counted in that 25%.

Neither are small presses, e-only presses, or Amazon's publishing imprints. This would be like the Cookie Council seeking a report on global cookie sales and polling a handful of Girl Scout troops for the answer—then announcing that 25% of worldwide cookie sales are Thin Mints. But this is wrong. They're just looking at Girl Scout cookies, and even then only a handful of troops. Every pronouncement about e-book adoption is flawed for the same reason. It's looking at only a small corner of a much bigger picture. (It's worth noting that our own report is also limited in that it's looking only at Amazon—chosen for being the largest book retailer in the world—but we acknowledge and state this limitation, and we plan on releasing broader reports in the future.)

There's a second and equally important reason to doubt a 25% e-book penetration number: The other 75% of those titles includes textbooks, academic books, cookbooks, children's books, and all the many categories that are relatively safe from digitization (for now). Print remains healthy in these categories, but these aren't the books most people think of when they hear that percentage quoted. E-book market share is generally spoken of in the context of the New York Timesbestsellers, the novels and non-fiction works that are referred to as “trade” publications. If we look specifically at this trade market, it's quite likely that e-books already account for more than 50% of current sales (some publishers have intimated as much [ link ]). Factoring in self-publishing and further limiting the scope to fiction, I've seen guesses as high as 70%. But that can't be possible, right?"

Lulu.com for Musicians - On Demand Music Publishing - Publishing digital audio content is not limited to music. You can also publish and sell audio books and other multimedia using the same process. Publish files in any format. Set your own royalties on your work. Lulu adds a commission of 25% of the royalty you set (or 19¢, whichever is greater). The Lulu commission therefore equals 20% of the total profit of each item sold. Everything you can put up there.

How to Register a Work with the Library of Congress
Literary Works
Visual Arts
Performing Arts
Sound Recordings

LIBRARY MARKET

School library and the Children's section of the public library Market.
* approximately
* 120 000 schools in the country,
* 70,000 elementary schools in the country,
* 7,000 public libraries.
* 0 training of both groups of librarians -

* Summary: Technical Stuff

• Public librarians are usually degree-holders, highly trained people,
• School librarians may not be degree holders
• Cataloging means books will or will not get processed and into the library, and now it is all done electronically.
• Companies will supply all the electronic backend data and do all the cataloging for the libraries. This is a major service.
• Mackin (aka jobber) buys books from publishers , and they then provide services that make the books immediately useful to schools and provides the electronic data.

What do Librarians Look For?

• well-reviewed material
• award-winning materia
• well-illustrated books. Big Awards -- Newbery Caldicott, others are appreciated.
• what's best for cultural and developmental needs of their
  clients.
• non-fiction & Early Literacy Program, bi-lingual outreach (Somali Hmong)
• help with kids' homework assignments.

• Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Hornbook, Kirkus Reviews, VOYA (Voice of Young America), and that a starred or boxed review really gets the librarian's attention.
• Online Reviews - Amazon.com, BIP, Baker & Taylor, Ingram, and Brodart
• Locally-reviewed materials & visiting local bookstores
• Books on television or talk shows or movie related
• Patron recommendations
• Comments from people inside the library system.
• Publishers' catalogs picked up at trade shows.
• They order online from the major vendors Amazon.com, BIP, Baker & Taylor, Ingram, and Brodart
• Many large publishers automatically send a copy of their newest books to evaluate through a public gifts program. They give over-the-transom gifts.
• Library acquisition departments hate to buy directly from individual publishers. To minimize paperwork, they preferred the ease of purchasingfrom wholesalers or various library jobbers, who also automatically help libraries keep their collections current.

The library of Congress provides two types of classification to books it catalogs for its collection.
Subject classification applies verbal subject terms to a book which describe the books overall content. Frequently the Library of Congress subject headings applied to a book may be found in the book itself on the reverse side of the title page. These subject headings are provided in a subject heading thesaurus, similar in structure to the thesauruses used for databases like ERIC, MEDLINE and other bibliographic databases. The thesuaurus for the Library of Congress is a multi-volume publication.

Subject Cataloging Division, Processing Dept.
Library of Congress, 1997

Like the subject heading words assigned to a book and provided on the s ubject catalog records (they were once printed cards filed alphabetically in drawers), the call numbers assigned to a book in both Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress classification are an assignment of to the book of a numerical statement of its most specific subject, the topic the book is most about, no easy task in today's times of complex interdisciplinary topics. The Dewey Decimal system is a rigid and limited system that permits little subdivision because the numbering system is so tightly utilized. The classification scheme is laid out in two volumes, a classification volume and an index volume. Dewey is most suitable for small topically diverse collections such as small rural public libraries.

The Library of Congress Classification system is published in over twenty volumes and each volume covers a Library of Congress Class or part of a class . The class would be one of the basic letters in the system such as class A which would be for general publications or class H which would be for social sciences or class Q which is devoted to the pure sciences. In class H the second letter subdivisions would include divisions like H itself for publications that are broadly social science, HA for statistics publications and publications of statistical data not specific to some subject field like education or banking. Class HB is for economics while class HC is for economic history. Numbers within each class further subdivide the subject field to specific subtopics within the discipline . The Library of Congress subject classification (call number) system is so precise that there is actually a Library of Congress classification designation for historical books about Walnut Street in Philadelphia. It is also a porous system that has a great deal of unused classification destinations throughout the system at all levels of the classification hierarchy.

Here is the catalog record for one of the volumes in the Library of Congress classification multi-volume set:

Corp author Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division.
Title Classification. Class P, subclasses PL-PM : languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania, hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languages / Subject Cataloging Division, Processing Services, Library of Congress.
Imprint Washington : The Library : For sale by the Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 1988.

Self Publish Copyright Law, Contracts Works for Hire

Previously, a sound recording could not legally be a work for hire because it wasn't in any of the statutory categories. Sound recordings have now been added to the list of categories of works that are capable of being work for hire. RIAA-sponsored "technical amendment" to a Congressional bill makes recorded music "works for hire" under the 1978 US Copyright Act. Now Under Section 101 of the Copyright Act, a work that is specially commissioned (read, not created by a full-time employee in the scope of his employement) can be a work made for hire and if there is an agreement signed by both parties which says it is a work made for hire.

THE SLIPPERY SLOPE

Copyright is not a divine right: Delhi HC
Observing that " copyright is not a divine right", the Delhi high court on Friday allowed Delhi University to issue photocopies of major textbooks published by leading publishers. The Justice held that the act of students getting books copied from DU's library or its authorised photocopy shop enjoys protection under Section 52 of the Copyright Act, which exempts education from copyright infringement. In a 94-page order, the court essentially concluded that if DU can photocopy content within its library to impart education to students, then similar protection is enjoyed by the contractor, Rameshwari Photocopy Service. The modest shop in North Campus was thrust at the heart of the case by international publishers who sued it for copyright infringement in 2012, resulting in Friday's landmark verdict on intellectual property rights. "Copyright, specially in literary works, is thus not an inevitable, divine, or natural right that confers on authors the absolute ownership of their creations. It is designed rather to stimulate activity and progress in the arts for the intellectual enrichment of the public," the Justice observed.

EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020
In what has been called a "life changing decision," the European Union's ministers of Science, Innovation, Trade, and Industry have decided to give individuals free access to science papers by 2020. FREE KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL
it would totally transform the (long questioned) paid-for subscription model that is used by many scientific journals. It would also undermine the common practice of releasing reports under embargo (a method that allows scientific journals to favor certain science communicators and members of the media to the great detriment of others).

France: Open Access law adopted
In France, the final text of a new law on Open Access has been adopted on June 29, 2016. On July 20, the Assemblée Nationale has approved the bill, and it still needs to be voted on by the Sénat on September 27. In the law text, article 17 is relevant for Open Access:

• Copyright Law - Works for Hire
• Contracts and Agreements A hint from a publishing lawyer a wonderful legal term called "notwithstanding" . Verbal Agreements vs. Written Contracts - What's Legal.
• What does a Teacher own? Educational CyberPlayGround: K12 CopyRight Law - Primer for Educators
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
  The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is pleased to present TEAS. ... TEAS allows you to fill out a form, check it for completeness, and then submit the form directly to the USPTO over the internet, making an official filing on-line." The site includes a trademark FAQ, introductory material about the procedure for registering a trademark, filing tips, forms, and related documents.
• Music Law

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CCH site puts out a free tax booklet for writers.
Call 847-267-2038 or write mediahelp@cch.com to request one. Click on Press Center, and scroll down to the bottom of the Press page. You'll see a link to click in order to add your name to the distribution list for future CCH resources.

" International Directory of E-Mail Addresses of Publishers, Vendors and Related Professional Associations, Organizations and Services " There is no fee for the listing. AcqWeb is a non-commercial home page maintained by acquisitions librarians for the benefit of the international library community. AcqWeb provides open access to the information collected on its files. AcqWeb is an all volunteer effort. You can view AcqWeb at http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/acqs.html and the E-Mail Directory http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/email-ad.html

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See Wikipedia:
As each ISBN Agency exhausts its supply of 10-digit ISBNs the International ISBN Agency will issue 13-digit ISBNs carrying the new EAN prefix "979". The U.S. ISBN Agency will issue 13-digit ISBNs with the "979" prefix only when the International Agency makes them available."

Planning statements on transitioning to the 13-digit ISBN:

• Library of Congress
  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/13digit.html
• Library and Archives Canada
  http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s17/f2/09-e.pdf
  

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About ISRC Codes - BACKGROUND:

ISRC CODES ARE FREE. No service charge. (Unlike the UPC Barcode.)
Most digital-download stores require them. I hear European radio requires them, too. The PPL Repertoire Database is the all-important system for record companies to register the details of their sound recordings.

UPC Barcodes
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The ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is the international identification system for sound recordings and music videorecordings.
Each ISRC is a unique and permanent identifier for a specific recording, to help identify recordings for royalty payments. It's assigned PER TRACK, not per CD.
It stays with a recording, so that if that same recording is re-released on a different CD (like a soundtrack). Notice I'm saying "recording" not "song", because it has nothing to do with the song underneath. If you (or anyone) records different versions or remixes of the same song, each track should have its own ISRC code.

ISBN BOOKS:
ISBN: Get Ready for the New ISBN! NISO Has New ISBN Standard
"The new 13-digit ISBN has been approved and plans are underway to transition to the new number industry-wide, world-wide by January 1, 2007 .
ISBN is an acronym standing for International Standard Book Number.
Here is a definition from the ODLIS dictionary that specializes in library and library science terminology.

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) http://lu.com/odlis/odlis_i.cfm#isbn
"A unique 10-digit standard number assigned to identify a specific edition of a book or other monographic publication issued by a given publisher, under a system recommended for international use by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1969. In the ISBN system, media such as audiorecordings, videorecordings, microfiche, and computer software are considered monographic publications, but serials, music sound recordings, and printed music are excluded because other identification systems have been developed to cover them. The ISBN is usually printed on the verso of the title page and on the back of the dust jacket of a book published in hardcover, or at the foot of the back cover in paperback editions. In AACR2, the ISBN is entered in the standard number and terms of availability area of the bibliographic description."

From the National Information Standards Organization ISBN Press Release:
"As of January 1, 2007, all book and book-related products must carry 13-digit ISBNs.All 10-digit ISBNs in circulation will have the 3-digit EAN prefix "978" added (which currently represents the book industry). This 13-digit ISBN is already represented, and will be identical, to current EAN bar codes carrying ISBN with the "978" prefix. All 10-digit ISBNs must be converted to the 13-digit format and all systems will need to accommodate its use in this format.