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The original query seemed to be for an ISBN database.  Other than
buying BOOKS IN PRINT in machine readable form (it's available on CD
ROM), I don't think such a database exists.

In article <1990Dec17.205911.15073@mtxinu.COM>, jaap@mtxinu.COM (Jaap
Akkerhuis) writes that a single book can have multiple ISBNs.  It's
worth pointing out that the hardcover and paperback versions of the
same book have different ISBNs.

> [My book] 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.

I thought the first number was for the *language*, not the country.  I
could be wrong.

The NIH class library book (published in the U.K.) didn't have a hyphen
between the publisher and book number, much to my surprise.

Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories
att!mtunq!psrc, psrc@mtunq.att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm
I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind.

P.S.:  "ISBN number" is redundant; ISBN stands for something like
"International Standard Book *Number*".  An "ISBN number" is a number
number?-)