From the course: Learning Metadata for Book Publishing
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ISBNs
- [Voiceover] Imagine you and a friend are talking about books, and you want to recommend a specific book to her. There are lots of ways you might identify that book. You tell her the title, you could describe the cover, you could give her the author's name, and talk about the plot, or you can give other, more obscure information about it. To find exactly what book you're talking about is much more important in the context of the publishing supply chain, and your metadata, than it is in your conversation with your friend. Every book on the market needs to be able to be identified definitively, with no chance of being mistaken. To do this, publishers use the International Standard Book Number, or ISBN. Before the year 2007, the ISBN was a 10 digit number, but the industry started to run out of numbers, so the ISBN today is a 13 digit number that starts with either 978, or 979. This range of 13 digit numbers is part of a larger group of 13 digit identifiers, known as the GTIN-13, the…
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