ISBN is 13 Digits from 1 Jan 2007
Dear professionals The ISBN No Changed to 13 digit with effect from 1st Jan 2007 The main reason for changing the ISBN was to increase the numbering capacity of the ISBN system. As a result of electronic publishing and other changes in the publishing industry, the numbering capacity of the ISBN system is being consumed at a much faster rate than was originally anticipated when the ISBN system was designed for printed books in the late 1960's. In effect, the ISBN system would have run out of numbers in its current format. That wasn't going to happen tomorrow but it was a real concern for the future. We acted on a solution now, while the industry still had enough time to plan and budget for change, so that the ISBN system will remain viable far into the future. The solution, simply put, is that the length of the ISBN number changes from 10 digits to 13 digits, effective 1 January 2007. visit the website http://www.isbn.org/toolkit.html Rajesh K A Librarian FKCCI Bangalore Dear professionals The ISBN No Changed to 13 digit with effect from 1st Jan 2007 The main reason for changing the ISBN was to increase the numbering capacity of the ISBN system. As a result of electronic publishing and other changes in the publishing industry, the numbering capacity of the ISBN system is being consumed at a much faster rate than was originally anticipated when the ISBN system was designed for printed books in the late 1960's. In effect, the ISBN system would have run out of numbers in its current format. That wasn't going to happen tomorrow but it was a real concern for the future. We acted on a solution now, while the industry still had enough time to plan and budget for change, so that the ISBN system will remain viable far into the future. The solution, simply put, is that the length of the ISBN number changes from 10 digits to 13 digits, effective 1 January 2007. visit the website http://www.isbn.org/toolkit.html Rajesh K A Librarian FKCCI Bangalore http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signat... http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/signature-home.htm/1963059423@Middle5?OAS_query=null&PARTNER=3
More info on 13 digit ISBN...
The new 13 digit ISBN also has a check digit at the end. The check digit
can take any value between 0 to 9. However, unlike in 10 digit ISBN, the
new ISBN will never have "x" as its check digit. The check digit for a 13
digit ISBN is calculated using a weighting algorithm which utilizes a
modulus 10. For more information on this visit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number
On 11 Jan 2007 11:38:18 -0000, rajesh kusanur
Dear professionals The ISBN No Changed to 13 digit with effect from 1st Jan 2007 The main reason for changing the ISBN was to increase the numbering capacity of the ISBN system. As a result of electronic publishing and other changes in the publishing industry, the numbering capacity of the ISBN system is being consumed at a much faster rate than was originally anticipated when the ISBN system was designed for printed books in the late 1960's. In effect, the ISBN system would have run out of numbers in its current format. That wasn't going to happen tomorrow but it was a real concern for the future. We acted on a solution now, while the industry still had enough time to plan and budget for change, so that the ISBN system will remain viable far into the future. The solution, simply put, is that the length of the ISBN number changes from 10 digits to 13 digits, effective 1 January 2007. visit the website http://www.isbn.org/toolkit.html Rajesh K A Librarian FKCCI Bangalore
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-- N.S. Harinarayana, Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangtori Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393 The new 13 digit ISBN also has a check digit at the end. The check digit can take any value between 0 to 9. However, unlike in 10 digit ISBN, the new ISBN will never have "x" as its check digit. The check digit for a 13 digit ISBN is calculated using a weighting algorithm which utilizes a modulus 10. For more information on this visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number On 11 Jan 2007 11:38:18 -0000, rajesh kusanur < mailto:rajesh.ka@rediffmail.com rajesh.ka@rediffmail.com
wrote: Dear professionals The ISBN No Changed to 13 digit with effect from 1st Jan 2007 The main reason for changing the ISBN was to increase the numbering capacity of the ISBN system. As a result of electronic publishing and other changes in the publishing industry, the numbering capacity of the ISBN system is being consumed at a much faster rate than was originally anticipated when the ISBN system was designed for printed books in the late 1960's. In effect, the ISBN system would have run out of numbers in its current format. That wasn't going to happen tomorrow but it was a real concern for the future. We acted on a solution now, while the industry still had enough time to plan and budget for change, so that the ISBN system will remain viable far into the future. The solution, simply put, is that the length of the ISBN number changes from 10 digits to 13 digits, effective 1 January 2007. visit the website http://www.isbn.org/toolkit.html http://www.isbn.org/toolkit.html Rajesh K A Librarian FKCCI Bangalore http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signat... http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signat... http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/signature-home.htm/1963059423@Middle5?OAS_query=null&PARTNER=3 http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/signature-home.htm/1963059423@Middle5?OAS_query=null&PARTNER=3
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