number and date of edition. It also requires that holders of ISSN and ISBN numbers prove "only once" the correct use of the numbers, within the six months following ...

LOOK inside any book published since 1970 and you will find a number. But perhaps not for much longer. The International Standard Book Number (ISBN), invented in Britain in 1965, took off rapidly as ...

IT systems will need to cope with new 13-digit book numbering system The publishing industry has been warned it is facing its own "Y2K" when it switches over to a new ISBN numbering system from 1 ...

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According to some reports, it just became a whole lot more expensive to be an author. Bowker, the US agency overseeing ISBN numbers, announced this week that a block of ten numbers would go from $250 ...

Kobo wants indie authors who publish via Kobo Writing Life to buy ISBN numbers. This will allow companies like Nielsen who track digital book sales to be able to accurately track sales figures for the ...

Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) has launched an online application system for the issuance of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN), International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN), International ...

It may seem like a routine letter involving procedure, but the recent one from a group of 17 small and medium publishers to the Ministry of Human Resource Development is anything but that. Every time ...