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This from CS after I emailed them 9 3 17 following up on what I learned on this page while researching barcodes for my new book “President Trump and the New World Order.”

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OTHER GREAT PRODUCTION TIPS FROM OUR ARCHIVE OVER TO YOU Have you had any experience with this new policy yet? Do you have any further advice to add? We'd love to hear it if you do! 1 top tip for #selfpublishing paperbacks via - re #barcodes Click To Tweet With thanks to ALLi partner Jessica Bell (author and cover designer) and author members Jean Gill and Keith Dixon for sharing news of this new policy via our members-only Facebook forum, one of 21 great reasons to join ALLi. However, it's pretty certain that the new policy will soon become general practice, so best advice is to gear up for compliance with any future paperbacks, to save yourself a potential and avoidable unwelcome delay. Whether or not a design including your own barcode is passed for publication seems to depend on which of their advisors reviews your submission. If you've just uploaded cover artwork featuring your own barcode and had it approved without any problem, anecdotal evidence suggests it's because this change in policy is so new that some of CS's advisors haven't started applying it yet. Sellers of your book will take its price from their stock database rather than from information coded into the barcode on the cover.

Incidentally, in case you're wondering, CS's barcode generation doesn't include price information, as some barcodes do, which is a good thing, because it means you can remain flexible with your prices, rather than being tied in with the publication price you set on CS.

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You can also refer to CreateSpace's Artwork Templates for the exact size and position of the ISBN barcode on your book's final cover at: Null Price Code If you want the barcode in a specific area, you can have a white box 2 inches wide by 1.2 inches tall placed anywhere on the back of the cover and we will put the barcode in that box for you. Please ensure that you don't have any important images or text in the barcode location. The right side of the barcode will be located a quarter of an inch to the left of the spine. The bottom of this barcode will be located a quarter of an inch up from the bottom trim line of the cover. The following advice gleaned from CS's customer service advisors' emails gives more detail of the process::ĬreateSpace's system will place the ISBN barcode in a space 2″ wide and 1.2″ tall. The first time you see the barcode in place will therefore be after your cover artwork has been reviewed and returned to you with comments, or, with luck, with the approval to proceed to publication. You are therefore now required to leave a blank space on your cover artwork to accommodate the CS barcode, or alternatively to ensure that your cover design is such that the overprinted barcode block will not obscure any text or important visual element, which would like cause your design to be rejected. However, following printing problems that had arisen from some barcodes submitted that way, CS is now clamping down and imposing its own barcode artwork instead, as part of the approval process. Although it was also possible (and easier) to allow CS to add its own instead, adding your own to your artwork enabled you to keep control of the complete design, and to use a more elegant format than CS's standard one-size-fits-all approach.

Until now, it's been possible to generate your own barcode and add it in to your book's cover design before you upload your cover design to CreateSpace (CS) ready for publication.

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How to get in line with CreateSpace's new barcode policy Old Policy

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