$150 for an ISBN? Really?
I'm pretty sure you can get them for free or less from government (or at least could 20 years ago. More recently my friend got an ISSN (magazine version of ISBN) for cost of filling out form.
I'm pretty sure you can get them for free or less from government (or at least could 20 years ago. More recently my friend got an ISSN (magazine version of ISBN) for cost of filling out form.
IRRC I wasn't getting an individual ISBN either I was getting a publisher code, and could issue thousands of ISBNs under it.
What a scam/racket, esp the barcodes. (like https certs, domain registration and other government mandated monopolies) It doesn't flippin cost $150 to track a number in a database.
I'm sure you could use Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/; http://www.scribus.net/?q=node/186).