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What can this unique identifier give authors that the url of their home page for their book does not? All I can think of is that urls do not have check digits,
by mooism2 15y ago
What can this unique identifier give authors that the url of their home page for their book does not?
All I can think of is that urls do not have check digits, whereas ISBNs and presumably your unique identifiers do, so typos can be caught without network access. Anything else?
- sathishmanohar 15y agoThis can be much cheaper and efficient option for authors to obtain unique identifiers, this service can be upto date with all digital trends, like QR codes for DSBN etc. Also, Only a very small fraction of books have official websites. So, these pages may also serve as official web-pages for those books, kinda like IMDB for books.