Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Say Good-Bye to the Ten-Digit ISBN

quote [ The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced last week that newly purchased ISBNs sold through Bowker will soon be sporting a 979 prefix. ]

So they need a new number space, but in practice it's a new country code? Sounds tricky.
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takajou said @ 4:55am GMT on 12th December
The first 979 ISBN13s started to be used nearly ten years ago. 2008 if I recall correctly?

That said... Amazon still doesn't use ISBN13s in their back end systems even now.


takajou said @ 4:56am GMT on 12th December
The first 979 ISBN13s started to be used around ten years ago. 2008 if I recall correctly?

That said... Amazon still doesn't use ISBN13s in their back end systems even now. All ISBN10s.



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takajou said @ 4:55am GMT on 12th December [Score:1 Insightful]
The first 979 ISBN13s started to be used around ten years ago. 2008 if I recall correctly?

That said... Amazon still doesn't use ISBN13s in their back end systems even now. All ISBN10s.




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