I just got an email this morning containing the first block of ISBN numbers assigned to Paragraph Line books!

This is cool to me because in the past, I’ve always used PoD services like Lulu.com to handle distribution, so my ISBNs came from their assigned blocks.  That meant that if you plugged in 978-0595134946 and looked up Summer Rain, you would see IUniverse as the publisher.  But now, my block of ISBN numbers will show Paragraph Line Books.

This is also a big point for me, because it’s the first major investment I had to take in getting things started here.  I hemmed and hawed over just going back to Lulu for fulfillment of the next zine, because I didn’t want to shell out $275 for ten numbers and then do one more issue and get bored.  But now that I have blown the money, I am on the hook for publishing another ten books in the future.  More about that later…