An International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric code used to uniquely identify a book, right down to the language, publisher, edition – and whether it is an ebook, paperback or hardcover. It makes life easier for booksellers, libraries, [...]
The ISBN for your book is easily translated into a worldwide compatible bar code format called a Bookland EAN (European Article Number). Every bookstore chain and most smaller bookshops use bar code scanning at the checkout register. If you didn’t [...]
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a thirteen-digit number (it used to be ten-digits) that uniquely identifies books and book like products published internationally. The purpose of the ISBN is to establish and identify one title or edition of [...]
We use the word "text" to describe everything that is in the interior of the book, not just the words. So, if you have artwork or photos, that is all part of the "text". If the artwork or photos are [...]
An ISBN gets placed on the copyright page and, if there is no bar code, on the back cover. What is the difference between a bar code and an ISBN? An ISBN is a number. A bar code is the [...]
A reprint means more copies are being printed with no substantial changes. Perhaps a few typos are being fixed. A new edition means that there has been a substantial change: content has been altered in a way that might make [...]