Twolane

What a great looking puppie that has stopped to smell the flowers!

I was able to find the movie on a bootleg movie site. It's 77 minutes of pure camp. Much mayhem ensues in an isolated British pub when a saucer lands nearby. A poor man's Gort also makes an appearance.

Nah. Not even close. It has to do with the old blue highways on road maps from the distant past. The Orleans I speak of is near Ottawa.

Back in the late 60s, a carload of us from a helicopter company located at what we called "the old schoolhouse" would attend the Orleans Hotel for their lunch. It was excellent. One day, properly lubricated as we were from the lunch and the beer, we drove past a bank robbery in progress. Ah, the good old days. (That old schoolhouse, as we called it, is still there and once again functions as a school. I don't know about the apple orchard that was next door.) Across the road and down a bit, the barn that was once our airframe shop is still there, too. We were a beginning company back in those days. Over time, we graduated to operating aircraft around the world.

Canva is going public? I think with some careful thought - or not - we all know where that will lead. It's not going to be pretty. Every move they make will then affect their bottom line. Need I explain?

Nice to look at, I guess.

At least it has a "Delete" key. That's a bonus.

I like that you saw fit to place the lightbulb on its proper side and not horizontal with the landscape.

Yeah, well, depending on the year, my output produces somewhere between 12 to 15,000 downloads a year, every year. Editions are way down on the "concern" ladder. So is royalty accounting. As an indie publisher, I do my own accounting, keep my own records, and do my own books. As long as the money going into the "income" pickle jar exceeds the "output" pickle jar expenses, I'm good. Been good for quite a while, actually. Life is good, too. No worries or concerns here. About anything. Edited to add that I consider producing a POD book from my output to be more of a hobby than anything else. I was reading a print book (can't remember what it was), but it was Big 5 output. I said to myself, I can do this. I already owned the Publisher software. I watched videos. Messed the first book up. Tried again. Came to the forums to ask questions, etc. I now have a template (thanks to the latest version of Publisher (v2.6.2) that I can use to instantly output print product in any format that rivals the interior look of the Big 5. Am I happy with that? Yes. Does the POD product sell? Not like my e-books. Do I care? No. But for my efforts I have books on my shelf to show off. They look nice. Open one, and it looks nice on the inside, too. So there's that. I hasten to add that without Affinity Publisher and Photo, I would never have produced print output.

Well, I couldn't list them all, but you are correct but for editions - whatever you mean by an edition. However, I use the same ISBN on Amazon and Ingram Spark for identical print products. Ditto for my e-pubs on Amazon, Apple, Barnes&Noble, Google Play Books, and Nook. They all get the same e-pub ISBN. Revisions (is that an edition?) to print or e-pub do not require a new ISBN unless the revision is substantial, whatever that means. Anyway, I'm doing just fine with my 50+ e-books and 30+ (I re-counted) print versions. Good luck, and I hope you don't have to pay for those ISBNs.

Unless the product you submit to Ingram differs substantially from what you submit to Amazon, i.e. physical size, interior formatted in oversize print for visually impaired, a hardcover, different paper type, etc., you do not need a separate ISBN. If you're in a country where you must pay for your barcodes, save yourself some money. If your ISBNs are free, go to it.

As I said, Amazon may or may not change your submitted barcode to their new barcode specification. It's not a barcode specification you can meet on your own. Amazon may or may not take the barcode you submit and modify it to their new requirements for barcodes. They're implementing this new barcode format over time, thus the "may or may not". As far as I know, Ingram does not make any changes to the same barcode you submit to Amazon.

I dunno, but it this free barcode site appears to be pretty simple to me. I've used it 20+ times. Works like a charm, too, considering one can input the price of choice. Your barcode supplier appears to be overcomplicating things with BMP, EPS, JPEG, PDF, TIFF, but what would I know? Where's the simple .png implementation? In any event, you should be aware that Amazon will modify your barcode to Amazon's new requirements. It may or may not resemble the barcode you supply. Good luck in your endeavors.

I can only speak to what works for me with both Amazon and Ingram. A simple .png barcode is all that I require for my productions. It is inserted into the cover file. There is no messing with "Add image' a TIFF barcode to the PDF after is has been flattened, but before it has been made press-ready for IngramSpark (because they seem to allow TIFF barcodes and the black inserts as 0-0-0-100 CMYK as they require and this is easy for me to insert). "I plan to 'Add image' an EPS barcode to the PDF after is has been flattened, but before it has been made press-ready for KDP (because they require a vector file. But another problem I have not resolved is, the vector file converts to a JPEG file when inserted into Adobe Acrobat XI PDF)." That appears to be a lot of extra work and experimentation that, in my experience, isn't necessary. But if it works for you, go with it.

[ I do only black and white print interiors, no images other than a random black and white image preceding the book text or at the end of the book. ] I publish POD books on Amazon and Ingram Spark. I pick up my free barcodes from the link. Occasionally, I'll slip the guy ten bucks. I've been using the site forever. https://bookow.com/resources.php#isbn-barcode-generator Once I have the .png barcode, I place or copy the downloaded barcode file onto my KDP cover file (done in Affinity Photo), within the yellow barcode area of the KDP template. I adjust the size accordingly so as to place it within the yellow outline. The adjusted size won't fit exactly, but it should on at least one side and the top (or the bottom), at least, to keep it within the boundary, I'm not sure why you're having problems. The barcode is part of the cover once you add it to the KDP template in the appropriate spot. I don't deal with curves on a barcode. Curves aren't a necessary part of a downloaded barcode from that site. Once I have added the barcode, I export All spreads / PDF/X-1a:2003 / CMYK. I don't recall flattening a PDF, but whatever works. Edited to ask: Are you doing the book cover and the book interior all in one file in Publisher? I've never tried that, but I suppose it's possible. If you are, I recommend simplifying the procedure by having a book cover file, and a separate book interior file. But whatever works for you. (And on further thought, I don't think KDP will let you do that, anyway. They want separate cover and interior files.)