Do You Need An ISBN Barcode?

If you wish to publish and sell your eBook on Amazon, the short answer is no because that isn't required. 

Amazon will provide an ASIN number to your eBook, which will be used to identify and track your title.

However, this is just with Amazon and eBooks.

If you want your readers to be able to obtain a print copy of your book, you'll need an ISBN code.This is vital if you have a brick-and-mortar marketing plan, if you want your book to be available through libraries, or if you want to work with wholesalers or other online merchants.

Do you need an ISBN barcode?

How To Generate ISBN Barcode?

If you want to generate your own book barcode, keep reading because the following is a step-by-step procedure for creating an ISBN barcode.

Get the ISBN Number

The user must first apply for an ISBN number before creating an ISBN barcode. 

This number should have ten or thirteen digits, such as 978-0-9767736-6-5. 

All books released after January 1, 2007, are required to display the ISBN in the new 13-digit format, or ISBN-13.

The free ISBN conversion tool can convert older 10 digit numbers to 13 digits.

Once retrieved, the ISBN number should be shown above the barcode on the book.

Get the ISBN Number

Products required to generate an ISBN barcode

To create an ISBN barcode, items must generate an EAN13 barcode as well as the OCR-A representation of the ISBN number, which displays above the EAN13 barcode. 

In some cases, creating ISBN barcodes with IDAutomation's UPC/EAN Font Package may be preferable. 

If dynamic barcodes or additional automation are required, IDAutomation provides a variety of barcode font tools, components, and stand-alone applications.

Generate an ISBN barcode image for the Book

Just follow the steps below to the end, you can get your own ISBN barcode.

• Set up the OCR Font Package.
• Install the barcode generator ISBN such as Barcode Image Generator once you've installed the OCR fonts.
• Start the Image Generator program. 
• Enter the first 12 digits of the ISBN number, the number 5, and the book's price in the Barcode Properties tab. The last digit of an ISBN number is a check digit that is not encoded in the barcode. 

For instance, 97809767736651050

Choose .050 for the X dimension and 1.80 for the Bar Height.

Select EAN13 as the Symbology.

Barcode Properties tab

• Click the set button for the Show Human Readable Text in the Text & Color Properties tab and choose IDAutomationOCRb at 9 points.

Text & Color Properties tab

• Click the set button for the Upper Caption Font in the Caption Properties tab and choose IDAutomationOCRa at 9 points.

Caption Properties tab

• Enter the given ISBN number (with dashes) preceded by the word "ISBN" in the Upper Caption text box on the Caption Properties tab. The upper caption for a 13-digit number would be ISBN 978-0-9767736-6-5.

Enter the given ISBN number

• Choose the image resolution (if unsure, pick 300) and Bitmap as the image type on the Image Properties tab.
• Select Generate Image File to save the image to your hard disk. This picture is now ready to be imported and used in the graphics of the book or printed as a label.

Select Generate Image File

Also read: What is MICR string? How does it work?  [A Complete Guide]

Conclusion

The key is to understand the purpose of the ISBN code if you want to be an author. Now that you have learned about how to generate ISBN barcode, we hope you can feel confident whenever you want to publish a book!