Book barcodes
A book barcode is your 13-digit ISBN drawn as bars, often with a small second barcode for the price. These articles show how to make the right one for your printer: a plain ISBN barcode, one with a price, or a layout made for Amazon KDP or IngramSpark.
How do I make an ISBN barcode for my book?Make an ISBN barcode on Barcode Rocket: pick Books and ISBN, choose Price or No price, type your 13-digit ISBN and download a 100% K vector PDF. Free, no account.
What is EAN-5, the price add-on?EAN-5 is the small second barcode next to a book's ISBN barcode. It holds the price: 51999 means US$19.99 and 90000 means no price. How Barcode Rocket encodes it.
How do I create a KDP barcode?Barcode Rocket makes a KDP barcode as a 2.0 x 1.2 in vector PDF for the Amazon KDP barcode area: ISBN bars, price add-on, white box and a 0.5 pt overprint frame.
How do I make an IngramSpark barcode?Barcode Rocket makes an IngramSpark barcode as a 1.255 x 1.0 in vector PDF, plain ISBN bars with no price add-on, for the template's 1.75 x 1 in barcode area.
Why is my ISBN not accepted?Barcode Rocket rejects an ISBN that has the wrong number of digits, does not start with 978 or 979, or has a wrong last digit. How to find the typo and fix it.
How do I make many barcodes at once?With a free Barcode Rocket account and a confirmed email, make up to 50 barcodes at once from lines or a CSV file, and get one ZIP with a PDF for each.