The ISBN was originally developed as part of a computerized system to track book inventories in warehouses in the late 1960s.

Every commercially published book in the world is given a unique International Standard Book Number, or ISBN. On its inception in 1967, that number was 10 digits long, though it was updated to 13 ...

LOOK inside any book published since 1970 and you will find a number. But perhaps not for much longer. The International Standard Book Number (ISBN), invented in Britain in 1965, took off rapidly as ...

An International Standard Book Number is a group of ten numbers identifying a book and its publisher. It simplifies book ordering processes for booksellers ...

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Most publishers of Bangladesh are unaware of the use of International Standard Book Number in their books. ISBN is obtained against a fee. The ISBN Agency in Bangladesh is the Directorate of Archives ...

According to some reports, it just became a whole lot more expensive to be an author. Bowker, the US agency overseeing ISBN numbers, announced this week that a block of ten numbers would go from $250 ...