How to Get an ISBN Number in Canada

Whether you're self publishing an e-book, a printed book or an audio book, here's exactly how to get ISBN. If you're Canadian, it's really easy to get an ISBN number and it's FREE in Canada!

If you want to sell a book anywhere other than your website, you'll need that ISBN number.

Links noted in the article:
havemoreinfluence.com/done-for-you-book-publish…
collectionscanada.gc.ca/isbn-canada/
creativindiecovers.com/free-online-isbn-barcode…

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Video transcript:
Are you a Canadian and you're self-publishing?
Good news ISBN numbers are free and I'm going to show you exactly how to get one today.
Getting an ISBN number in Canada is free and it's pretty darn easy to do so I want to show you today exactly how to get one for whatever it is you're doing so I've already shot a video on what is an ISBN number so you might want to go check that out.
I also have an article that I'll link to in YouTube below on these done for you book packages and whether it makes sense for you.
Today I just want to focus solely on where to go and what to do to get your ISBN number but you will need a different ISBN number for every kind of publication so if you're doing an e-book
a physical book and an audiobook you're going to need three different ISBN numbers and so here's exactly how you're going to get them.
First thing I recommend just go to google and type in ISBN Canada or Library and Archives
Canada ISBN and you're going to get to this website with this link and go to create an ISBN account these are the fields that you'll need to fill in and so I'm just walking you through I'm not gonna fill them in right now because I already have an ISBN account and I can now easily request multiple ISBN numbers.
Now, just a couple things you should note is initially when you set up your account it can take up
to 10 business days for you to get your ISBN number so think about that well before you're going to need it apply for it you can change the title and change other details once you have everything firmed up but if you know you're self-publishing in the next few months go ahead and fill this in and get your account so you've got it set up and you can request ISBN numbers once you have this account.
It's super easy to request multiple ISBN numbers and you get them instantly so for my latest book that I'm about to publish it took me all of 10 minutes to get the ISBN number for the Kindle version the physical version as well as the audio version which I haven't even started working on yet that will be coming out a few months after the printed version ok so once you have
your account you'll just go and login and you'll go to the left and you'll go to manage logbook so you can actually see a list of the ISBN numbers that I have and that I've created as I mentioned and all you're gonna do is click on assign new @ ISBN and then you just fill in these fields that you see here.
If you don't know the exact publication date yet then you just put in forthcoming so once you have the ISBN number the next thing is you need to create that barcode and I found this free website that does it and it creates the barcode it's what I used for my first book and I'm using it for the products that I'm creating now so all you do is you follow the instructions on this website
I'll include the link down below but you can see the link here as well and you just copy and paste your ISBN number into the spot here follow the instructions if you want to include a price point and other details you can see here and then voila now you have your barcode that you can send to your designer who's creating your book covers and your book images and you've got that done.
Hope this helps and hope that you realize that we're lucky to be Canadian because this ISBN number can work anywhere in the world and I'm pretty sure that other countries have to pay
for their ISBN numbers