to ISBN literate

[bekah]

At 3:01 AM +0200 11/17/06, Ya Sam wrote:
>Do you know why AtD has two isbns:
>
>ISBN-10 : 159420120X and
>ISBN-13 : 9781594201202   ?


It's a transition that the International Standards Organization (ISO) 
is making right now.   It will be effective Jan 1, 2007.   This 
transition will make more numbers available for ISBNs.


ISBN-10 : 159420120X   is the number of ATD for use prior to Jan 1, 2007.
ISBN-13 : 9781594201202    is the number for ATD after Jan 1, 2007.

The 13s are 13 digits long while the 10s were only 10 digits long and 
they were going to run out of numbers.


http://www.bisg.org/isbn-13/index.html

Bekah

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