Robin Vleij

Beautiful, happy to have seen them twice this season, first at #RIAT then today at #sanicole: #freccetricolori #aviation
#airshows

Fantastic to watch, perfectly executed flying!

"Instead of Depression by Andrea Gibson

try calling it hibernation. Imagine the darkness is a cave in which you will be nurtured by doing absolutely nothing. Hibernating animals don't even dream. It's okay if you can't imagine spring. Sleep through the alarm of the world. Name your hopelessness a quiet hollow, a place you go to heal, a den you dug, Sweetheart, instead of a grave."

— Andrea Gibson: You Better Be Lightning, p. 32

We lost a star today. Thank you for sharing yourself with us, Andrea. #TodaysPoem #AndreaGibson #QueerPoets #NonbinaryPoets #Poetry

"Werewolf Avoidance by Nikki Giovanni

I've never "blogged" before so this is new territory for me I do poet though and that is always somewhere in the netherland I think poetry is employed by truth I think our job is to tell the truth as we see it don't you just hate a namby-pamby poem that goes all over the place saying nothing

Poets should be strong in our emotions and our words that might make us difficult to live with but I do believe easier to love Poet is garlic Not for everyone but for those who take it never get caught by werewolves"

— Nikki Giovanni: Chasing Utopia, p. 80

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #BlackPoets #QueerPoets #NikkiGiovanni

"A Robin's Poem by Nikki Giovanni

if you plant grain you get fields of flour if you plant seeds you get grass or babies i planted once and a robin red breast flew in my window but a tom cat wouldn't let it stay"

— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 119

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #NikkiGiovanni #BlackPoets #QueerPoets #BlackHistoryMonth

"The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Nikki Giovanni

His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-violence."

— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 51

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #NikkiGiovanni #BlackPoets #QueerPoets

"Sometimes by Nikki Giovanni

sometimes when i wake up in the morning and see all the faces i just can't breathe"

— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 132

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #NikkiGiovanni #BlackPoets #QueerPoets

ISBNs and barcodes

ISBNs and barcodes are related, but not the same. Clients sometimes ask us if they should buy ISBNs and/or barcodes. For barcodes, the answer is simple: no.

It’s a little more complex for ISBNs. This article will explain both, so that you can make an informed decision.

ISBNs

Every print book has an ISBN (International Standard Book Number). This is a 13-digit number that uniquely identifies that particular edition of the book. It’s important to note that the ISBN identifies the edition of the book. The paperback will have a different ISBN to the hardback or the ebook.

Originally, ISBNs were ten digits. A new 13-digit format was introduced when it became clear that the supply of 10-digit numbers was getting short. It is possible to convert any 10-digit ISBN into the 13-digit equivalent.

Should you buy ISBNs?

Ebooks can have an ISBN, but some vendors (notably Amazon) don’t show the ISBN on the product pages. Those vendors that do require an ISBN will generally provide one for free if you don’t have your own. Any ebooks set up on Kobo that don’t have an ISBN assigned will be given a number which is not a valid ISBN, but has the same format.

Amazon KDP will provide a free ISBN for your print book if you wish. Ingram Spark will do the same for customers located in the USA, but not for customers located elsewhere.

Free ISBNs from vendors have some disadvantages. They can only be used at the vendor that supplied them. If you use free ISBNs and set up your paperback at more than one vendor, your paperback will have multiple ISBNs. If you buy your own ISBN (or use one of ours), you will be able to use the same ISBN everywhere.

Free ISBNs have the publisher name already fixed. Books using Amazon’s ISBNs list the publisher as “Independently Published”. Ingram Spark ISBNs list the publisher as “Indy Pub”. Our ISBNs list the publisher as “Shilka Publishing”.

If you buy your own ISBNs, you can set the publisher name. Obviously, you should avoid existing publisher names, but beyond that, you can choose any name you wish. Unfortunately, you need a separate number for each format (eg hardback, paperback, ebook), and they are expensive in many places unless you buy in bulk.

ISBNs must be bought from your country’s ISBN agency (eg Nielsen in the UK, Bowker in the USA). At the time of writing, UK ISBNs cost £93 for one, £174 for ten, £387 for 100, or £994 for 1,000. In some countries, such as Canada and France, they are available for free.

Barcodes

Every print book has the ISBN displayed on the back cover, both in human-readable format, and as a barcode. But note that there is no need to pay for a barcode. We have a free barcode creator, and there are other sites that will create a barcode for free. Amazon KDP and Ingram Spark will add a barcode if the cover does not already have one, and Draft2Digital insist that print covers do not have a barcode.

Price in barcodes

It is possible to embed the price in a barcode. In this case, a second barcode is displayed to the right, with the currency (specified as a number) and price. Some printers may require the price to be included, but it is possible to set the price to “90000”, which means that the price is not set.

We recommend that the price is not included, for several reasons. The price has to specify the currency, but your book could be sold all over the world. The price in US dollars is of no use to buyers in Canada, the UK, etc.

In addition, having the price in the barcode complicates changing the price in the future. Any price change will necessitate updating the price section of the barcode (not the ISBN section). This means that you will need to update the barcode on the cover file and upload the new file.

If you hire us to help you publish your book, we’ll deal with all this for you. You can use your own ISBNs, or we’ll supply Shilka Publishing ISBNs for free. In either case, we’ll create barcodes were required.

#barcode #barcodes #ISBN #ISBNs

Half way through the latest gem by Richard Osman; We Solve Murders. Just as with all 'The Thursday Murder Club' series, this new set of characters and murder-filled plotline still manages to totally meet the #cosy tag given by @Audible. Heartwarming and wonderful in the extreme #Totally❤RichardOsman https://www.penguin.co.uk/we-solve-murders

Oubliez pas demain c'est à 10h ! 🌇

#toulouse #manif #13octobre

@khayozu Feels a bit like #Rivella, which is a #Swiss softdrink that's pretty common in the Netherlands. It's actually my default softdrink, since it has very few carbs / energy.

I'll be bringing some of this #Almdudler home when we leave here...

Is it this nice because I can’t buy it in the Netherlands or is it just a nice softdrink? #austria #almdudler #travel #tirol

Here's some of the context for the 90% strike mandate (with 93% turnout) that members of the Memorial University Faculty Association, MUNFA, recently delivered to the union executive.

https://theindependent.ca/commentary/we-need-to-rethink-how-memorial-is-governed/

#MemorialUniversity #NewfoundlandAndLabrador #WorkersRights #Labour #PublicUniversity #CollegialGovernance