What is the difference between the two ISBN numbers on books?

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There are different numbers for hardback and softback versions of the same book, but there is also... and here I quote from isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/transition.... On January 1, 2007, the book industry will begin using 13 digit ISBNs to identify all books in supply chain. This change is happening for the following reasons: to expand the numbering capacity of the ISBN system and alleviate numbering shortages in certain areas of the world; to fully align the numbering system for books with the global EAN. UCC identification system that is widely used to identify most other consumer goods worldwide.

Two new prefixes are being created. The 978 prefix will be added in front of the current ISBN-10 and with the addition of a new check digit at the end, the new ISBN-13 is created. The new 979 prefix will not be utilized until all 978 pre-fixes have been assigned.

However, 13 digit ISBNs that begin with 979 can never be converted to 10 digit ISBNs. They have no 10 digit counterpart. So, to sum up: Prior to January 1, 2007, books will continue to be published using ISBN-10s.

• Beginning January 1, 2007, all books will be published with ISBN-13s. • During the transition period, BISG recommends that publishers should: - Print both the ISBN-10 and the ISBN-13 on the Copyright Page in this format: ISBN-10: 1-56619-909-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-56619-909-4 There is an IBSN-13 convertor here: http://www.isbn.org/converterpub.asp (I do not know yet how this affects associate sellers with amazon. ) Sources: googling to isbn.Org .

ISBN 10 and ISBN 13 All ISBN numbers used to be 10 digits long over the past few years publishers have been switching to ISBN numbers that are 13 digits long. Sometimes it even says "ISBN 10" next to one number and "ISBN 13" next to the other number. It is just part of the switch to the longer numbers.

The ISBN is how books are rung up and sorted in computer systems listing both numbers gives book stores and libraries time to catch up. The ISBN 13 number will start with 978 or 979 most often I see 978 but I don't know why that is. Some numbers within the ISBN have meaning like with the ISBN 10 all books in english have an ISBN starting with 1 or 0 in ISBN 13 it is the 4th number so really they are running out of numbers and need to use a longer number.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0765354063/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-8284417-7906003#reader-link This link goes to the back view of a book on amazon using the "look inside" feature. It show the 2 ISBN numbers listed above the barcode. This is a link to the Wikipedia article about ISBN numbers it is very complete and explains what all the numbers in the ISBN mean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isbn Sources: me .

ISBN space is running low, so they're being extended... The ISBN, or International Standard Book Number, is a unique 10-digit number that describes one edition of one title. However, only the first 9 digits are distinct; the 10th digit is a checksum that protects against typographical errors in one ISBN becoming a valid ISBN for another book (e.g. 0-7434-3434-X is a valid ISBN, but 0-7434-3435-X is not, nor is 0-7434-3443-X). So really, there are 9 digits available to identify each and every edition of every professionally-published book on the planet.

That gives us a total of 10^9, or 1,000,000,000, or one billion, total potential ISBNs. Seems like there should be plenty of them available before we run out, right? Well, no.

First off, ISBNs are geographically/linguistically distributed. ISBNs that start with 0- or 1- are for books published in English-speaking countries (e.g.UK). ISBNs that start with 2- are for French-speaking countries (e.g. Belgium), 3- for German (e.g. Austria), 4- for Japanese (pretty much just Japan), and so on.

When you get up to the 8’s and 9’s, the prefixes get longer, e.g. 82- is for Norway, 954- is for Bulgaria, 9948- is for the United Arab Emirates, and 99944- is for Ethiopia.So for English-speaking country books, there’s really only 200,000,000, or two hundred million, ISBNs available. Still more than enough, right? Well, no.

The next hurdle is for publishers. Each publisher is assigned one or more publisher codes that they are allowed to allocate to books in, as they see fit. For example, Simon & Schuster has 0-671-, 0-689-, 0-7434-, 0-7435-, among others.

They get the entire range for each of those codes, and they often have available ISBNs in multiple blocks because they split them up amongst their imprints in a certain way, e.g. Simon & Schuster Audio (S&SA) has 0-7435-. If another imprint, say Pocket Books, runs out of ISBNs in their block, they can’t necessarily use an available one in S&SA’s block; they may need to get a new block. This leaves many ISBNs reserved and unused, with more becoming reserved for each publisher even when there are plenty of unused ones in other publishers’ code blocks.

Add to that the sheer number of different titles being published these days. I did an Amazon search for all books in its catalog published during the year 2006.It came back with 437,714 results. But that’s only the number of titles... many of them have multiple editions, such as a hardcover, paperback, audiobook (cassette and CD, two editions so two ISBNs).

That doesn’t even count many of the other things that are published with ISBNs (some software and videos are assigned ISBNs), and items that Amazon doesn’t stock (they don’t sell most eBooks, which use up a lot of ISBNs, and they don’t sell all non-US books (e.g. The UK versions of the Harry Potter books, which have different ISBNs than the US versions)). So let’s roughly estimate that 800,000 ISBNs are actually assigned every year. It would take about 250 years, then, to exhaust the 0- and 1- ISBN space... if every ISBN were used up.

But with all the extra space reserved by large publishers, it will happen a lot faster than that. So what the International ISBN Agency (kinda redundant, since the I in ISBN stands for International, but anyhoo...) decided to do was to extend the ISBN range so that it could continue for a much longer period of time. To do this, they extended the ISBN from 10 digits to 13 digits.As of 4-3434, all publishers are expected to include the 13-digit ISBNs, though for convenience many will continue to also include 10-digit ISBNs until they start using the next prefix.

To convert from an existing 10-digit ISBN to its corresponding 13-digit ISBN, add "978-" to the beginning, then replace the last digit (the checksum digit) as follows (using the example 0-7434-3434-X ISBN from above): Look at the partial ISBN as a series of individual digits. Starting with the first digit (the "9" of "978"), multiply each digit by 1 or 3, alternating. Then add these results together to get a total.

9 7 8 0 7 4 3 4 3 4 3 4 x1 x3 x1 x3 x1 x3 x1 x3 x1 x3 x1 x3 9 +21 +8 +0 +7 +12 +3 +12 +3 +12 +3 +12 = 102 After you have the total, take just the last digit. (In math terms, this is taking the number "mod 10".) In this case, the last digit is 2. Now subtract this number from 10, and the last digit of this answer is your checksum digit.

In this case, the checksum digit is 8.So our final ISBN-13 is 978-0-7434-3434-8. (The 978- code was chosen because that is already the prefix used on the UPC symbol, so older books should already have the ISBN-13 code on the book, even if it's not obvious that that's what it is. ) Of course, if all the change did was add the 978- prefix, it wouldn't actually create any additional capacity for ISBNs.So newer ISBN assignment blocks will begin with 979-, and their UPCs will match.

And there's potential to expand to further prefixes (980 through 982 are already used, but 983 through 989 are currently available, as are several other prefixes in the 900's). These 979-prefixed ISBNs will not have a 10-digit equivalent. Sources: As linked, plus knowledge from the book industry .

What you might be seeing is a UPC or EAN number Especially in mass market paperbacks, they’ll often have two numbers, and a barcode. One is the ISBN, which bookstores usually use, and the other is a UPC or EAN, which places like grocery and drug stores use. If its actually two ISBns you're seeing there's another possibility.

I used to be a book dealer, and in some occasions (but rarely) there would be two actual ISBNs, and it was usually one for hardcover and one for softcover, trade paperback softcover versus mass market paperback... and I guess that was so they could use the same printing plates and press for both editions, changing only the binding and perhaps paper stock. Sources: experience .

Two different ISBN numbers the 10-digit ISBN is for USA books and the other is the international code. I searched the internet for the cheapest price on a biology book and found an international version that was cheaper. It had a different cover picture, but was otherwise the same book.

Sources: past experience .

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Do you have books with this ISBN 0-073-30491-3.

I am looking for a scanner and software that will scan isbn on books and read them into an excel spreadsheet.

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