Well Dahh!!!!

Have you ever had a problem that you couldn’t figure out how to fix, so you put it off and then out of the blue, you get the answer and it is so simple!!!!
 
Well that is what happened to me concerning my mis-matched ISBN numbers on one of my books!!!!
 
When I uploaded my colouring book, I accidentally used an old ISBN from my colouring Sketchbook. Well, I tried get the thing stopped from publication but it was missed by the review team whom I was told would catch it so that the online site and book didn’t match!
 
In the end it looked like I would have to unpublished the book and then correct the code and republish it.  I made numerous calls but to no avail…Once the book is uploaded, it is a done deal. They can’t or won’t do!!!!
 
Since I am in the middle of finding a new job and moving to a new place, I decided to let it go until I was ready to deal with the headaches of it all. Then the other morning I woke up with an idea!
 
When you get an ISBN in Canada, you can manage them on line which also means you can rename which book gets the number. Since the mistaken number was no longer in use, I just changed the status and title of the book to active and uploaded the book with a matching bar code and number in the cover! So much easier than unpublishing it to KDP and uploading for publication all over again! 
 
By the way, in Canada, the ISBN is free however you do have to send a hard copy of the books you use the ISBNs on so it works out to be the same price in the end…but it is great to not have to pay that fee upfront!!!!
 
Sometimes you have to wonder about the miracle of the human brain. Even though it may gallop away on many occasions and not stay focused on the task at hand, it still manages to keep perking somewhere below the surface to feed you the answers you need just when you need them! That’s a true wonderful thing!!!!!