Day 30
27-01-2006
The waiting is over. Today I received a very nice email from Maryse Plouffe, Collections Canada. The name seems to imply they are the division of the federal tax agency that collects unpaid taxes but they are in fact the library and archives division and the division responsible for handing out ISBNs.
Bonjour! Sushigami is assigned ISBN 0-9780196-0-1 Here is information on Legal Deposit: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/6/25/index-e.html For future contact, here is your publisher name and your publisher prefix. Using these will help us to serve you better. Your publisher name is: Invisible Hand Publishing Your publisher prefix is: XXXXXX Thank you. Maryse Plouffe ISBN Agency/Agence ISBN Library & Archives Canada/Bibliothèque & Archives Canada Tel.: (819) 994-6872 or 866 578 7777 (toll free) Fax: (819) 997-7517 email: isbn@lac-bac.gc.ca www.collectionscanada.ca
So I am — or at least Invisible Hand is — now officially a publisher according to the Canadian Government. They have assigned Invisible Hand a small block of ISBNs for the books it intends to publish and — in particular — assigned my Sushigami book the ISBN 0-9780196-0-1. Cool. The project is official.
Good luck, and looking forward to the publication. Approximately how many designs will be included in the book?
Thanks Iko.
I currently have 27 designs with plans for approx another 8 in the works – 30 was my target for a go/no-go on the book so I’m going to comfortably make that. The designs are broadly split into “quick folds” that can be folded relatively easily and “long folds” that you either need to have very quick fingers or a very slow server if you want to fold them before the sushi arrives. Having said that on a recent trip to London, I managed to fold one of my more complex designs (a tortoise) in a sushi resaurant off Leicester Square before the sushi arrived and that with some very poor wrapper paper.