This post is about Google’s ‘Knowledge Graph’, aka beautiful author and book plates that show up in title searches. Yes, us authors always moan about having to buy an ISBN. Relax, you are going to love this secret I found out. Multiple book authors with ISBNs get the Google star treatment! The benefits of having your own ISBN at Thorpe Bowker: It is yours to keep up to date (not a publisher you can’t get hold of), you get to inform library suppliers and so help along sales, You can assign a library discount, discounts to retail, and You may be assigned a section by Google which matches your ISBNs to you and brings up a special box with all your books in it when someone does an exact title search on Google. I love that bit the most!  Find below…