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E-book ISBN Mess Needs Sorting Out, Say UK Publishers

Posted at 8:04AM Thursday 11 Mar 2010

The subject of how book digitization is affecting the future of the ISBN may not be as sexy as say pricing or sequencing issues, but it is just as important. Right now, publishers around the globe are taking different approaches to assigning ISBNs to e-books, that is if they are assigning them at all. The situation is like it was back in the 1960s, in the pre-ISBN days of printed books: a bit of a mess.

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