by Brendan Tripp
Editor, Eschaton Books
As Ed Hubbard noted in the Preface, the intent for The Common Book of Witchcraft & Wicca was that it would be shared, not only in .PDF form, but in other editions as well.
This means that if your group wants to produce your own printed version of this, with whatever additions, subtractions, and reordering you care to make, that’s great… with a few caveats.
On page ii here, there is credit for the image used on the cover of this particular edition. Needless to say, were you to use a different image, you would want to change that to credit the source of your image.
Similarly, on page iv, there is information dealing with the publication of this edition, and its accompanying hard cover and paperback editions. DO NOT use the ISBNs listed there for your edition. Please remove the Eschaton Books information there, as well as the copyright notice from Witch School (which is there to simply to establish publication precedence). However, you do want to keep the Creative Commons licensing info there for your version.
Frankly, if you are doing a variation of this and only distributing it as an e-book, it probably does not need an ISBN, but if you are going to be printing a new version, please get your own number (it really messes up the book business when ISBNS - which should be unique identifiers of books - get reused!). Information about how to do that can be found via a web search, with this being a good overview: http://goo.gl/um2hBr
In the U.S., http://www.isbn.org is the official source, but they are quite expensive for buying just one number, so you might want to check out other services which buy blocks of numbers and sell them individually, sometimes packaged with a barcode graphic. Also, if you are going to be producing a print version, please use your own ISBN and related barcode graphic rather than the one that’s on Eschaton’s editions.