Elizabeth K. Burton, our latest contributor, is an author and executive editor of Zumaya Publications LLC of Austin, Texas, an inventory-free trade press. Welcome, Liz! – D.R. The ISBN interests want publishers of e-books to offer a unique ISBN for each electronic format the books appear in. This campaign has been going on for months.  The rationale? Each e-format supposedly is a new edition of a book. But that’s absurd. In fact, many independent e-book publishers would go out of business if---while offering titles in as many formats as possible---they complied with this plan. ...

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