#Book barcode generator free

Some will say, if anyone (or a bookstore!) looks up your ISBN and sees it’s from Amazon, they won’t buy it but most of your sales will probably come from readers and you can tweak your Amazon page with a publishing imprint (any name you want) anyway.

#Book barcode generator free

If you get a free one from KDP, you can’t use it elsewhere. You *can* also pay extra for a unique ISBN, and make your own barcode with a price embedded, you just don’t really need to. If you’re publishing with KDP print (Amazon), you can get a free ISBN number, and they will automatically generate and add a barcode to your book cover design, if you just leave space on the back. However, *most* indie authors sell books online and so it isn’t actually that important. *If* you want to sell your paperbacks in bookstores, you’ll need one – and most bookstores want a price embedded.

The barcode is the thing a bookstore would scan for pricing information. These aren’t the same things, and some places will charge a lot for both an ISBN, and the graphic-image barcode that you add to your book cover design. If you’re a book cover designer or indie author designing your own book cover, you may need to make a barcode from your ISBN.