New Cover, Who Dis?

Recently I’ve republished my first book, These Words, with a new cover. “Why,” you might be asking? Great question, person reading this blog!

When you publish a book, you must have an ISBN attached to it. “What’s an ISBN,” you might be thinking. (Another great question.) An ISBN is an International Standard Book Number. It consists of thirteen digits and is unique to each book that has been published. An ISBN is the book’s fingerprint, and it allows your book to be searchable not only by publishers, libraries, and printers, but by readers as well. ISBNs aren’t exactly cheap and if you publish with KDP (Amazon) you are issued a free ISBN, which saves you money and allows you to test the market for your work. Unfortunately, if you would like to have a wider distribution system outside of Amazon, then you really need to buy an ISBN.

“So why the new cover?” (You really have a lot of questions today, don’t you.) When you publish through KDP, they have a cover creator tool which I used as I wasn’t feeling overly confident in creating something myself, and I surely couldn’t afford to hire an artist to create one. However, when you republish a book, you must unpublish the first edition if you are using a new ISBN, and I could not transfer the original book cover.

So, new cover, new ISBN, same poetry on the inside, and hopefully some answers to your burning questions.

New cover, same eclectic modern poetry.