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Why not buy 100 of them? How many individuals have actually published more than 100 books?
by hexane360 8y ago
Why not buy 100 of them?
How many individuals have actually published more than 100 books?
- gwern 8y agoIt sounds like it's not 1 ISBN per book, it's one ISBN per printing/publisher of each book. If you have 9 books and 9 publishers in different countries print them once and then in some countries they get reprinted/resold later on by a different publisher...
- blue1 8y agoNot just that, even different editions By the same publisher must have different ISBNs. It is even recommended that every electronic format of the same book should have a different ISBN (though I see many publishers not doing that).
- Dylan16807 8y agoThe article is pretty clear about intending to use the same ISBN for different printers. So 9 numbers, not 81. Their primary goal is to capture the value of having the same ISBN in different channels.