OK - here we go with the newbie questions. I'm sorry if this has been addressed a million times before.
I plan to go wide. I am thinking of going direct with Amazon and Kobo and the rest through D2D. Is it best for me to purchase an ISBN from Bowker rather than being assigned three different numbers by these different vendors?
I'm sure I'll have many more questions as I go through this part of the process for the first time. But that's all for the moment...
Thank you
Are you talking about digital, print, or both? I haven't purchased any ISBNs, and that hasn't been an issue for me, but I also haven't done any print books, either.
Thank you!
Newbie question #2. I would like to list my book under some subcategories but I am not given that option in the form I am filling out. Just very basic categories are presented. The two I know I want to use - science fiction, metaphysical and science fiction, colonization are ones that require a keyword. I get that but my question is - what do I pick from the generalized options offered? I have to pick those, right? And how do those keywords magically turn into a subcategory? Do I need to email or call to request that? And if I need to do that, do I enter the general ones and then call later? Can I ask for more than one subcategory at a time?
Thanks so much!!!
My book
Hostile Planet is in Metaphysical, so I can tell you what I did.
These are the two categories I picked:
The rest was done with keywords. I used "metaphysical" as one of my keywords.
KDP offers a nice list of keywords to use to get into various categories. You might find this helpful:
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201216150That's all there is to it. Good luck.