A unique ten-digit number assigned to each printed book.
a number that identifies any book, brochure of a certain publisher at the international level See also: isbn;
ISBN is assigned by designated agencies in countries publishing books to provide each book with a unique identification number by which the item can be ordered. The number consists of 10 digits separated into 4 functional parts as follows; 1) One or more digits to represent the country or group of countries in which the item was published; 2) 2-7 digits of the publisher's prefix; 3) one or more digits to identify a particular title and to expand the number to nine digits; 4) and a check digit for a computer validity check.
Unique 13-digit number (10 or 13 digits prior to 2007) that identifies a version of a book.
An internationally agreed upon standard number that uniquely identifies an item.
A publication number issued by the Library of Congress that identifies a specific book or other nonperiodical.
A unique identification number assigned to a work by its publisher. Each ISBN has ten characters. The tenth character is a check character that may be a number or the letter . In printed form, the ISBN has three hyphens. Hyphens are omitted in online records.
(ISBN) - A unique number assigned to a book. It usually appears on the back of the title page and consists of four segments, each separated by a hyphen. The first segment identifies the origin country, the second a publisher, the third segment a title or work, and the fourth segment is a check on the accuracy of the other three segments. See www.isbn.org
The International Standard Book Number, or ISBN (sometimes pronounced ), is a uniqueOccasionally publishers will use an ISBN in error for more than one title (for example, the first edition of "The Ultimate Alphabet" and "The Ultimate Alphabet Workbook" have the same ISBN 0-8050-0076-3). Conversely, books can be published with multiple ISBNs: A German as a second language edition of Emil und die Detektive has the following ISBNs: 87-23-90157-8 (Denmark), 0-8219-1069-8 (United States), 91-21-15628-X (Sweden), 0-85048-548-7 (England) and 3-12-675495-3 (Germany). identifier for books, intended to be used commercially. The ISBN system was created in the United Kingdom in 1966 by the booksellers and stationers WH Smith and was originally a nine digit code called Standard Book Numbering or SBN (still used in 1974).
