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It 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 th
by gwern 8y ago
It 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.