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Article #2222Re: ISBN numbers
From: Tom Hofmann
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 1990 09:42
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 1990 09:42
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In article <1990Dec17.205911.15073@mtxinu.COM> jaap@mtxinu.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) writes: | As far as I remember, the only |thing coded into the ISBN number is the country ... | |BTW, this scheme also implies that for a single book one can have |more then one ISBN number, when it is published in two different |countries. As a matter of fact, I have one lying in front of me. |It has the ISBN 0-387-97397-4 as well as 3-540-97397-4. | |The 0 for the USA and 387 for the publisher, Springer Verlag, New |York, while in the other number 3 stands for Germany and 540 for |Springer Verlag Berlin-Heidelberg. I seem to remember that 90 is |the code for the Netherlands. It is not the country but the language which is coded in the first digit(s): 0 - English 1 - English 2 - French 3 - German etc. In some cases (international publishers) it can happen that the language code does not reflect the language of the book. Tom Hofmann wtho@ciba-geigy.ch
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