The ISBN was originally developed as part of a computerized system to track book inventories in warehouses in the late 1960s. Publisher David Whitaker is the father of the ISBN. He wanted to be able ...

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 ...

IT systems will need to cope with new 13-digit book numbering system The publishing industry has been warned it is facing its own "Y2K" when it switches over to a new ISBN numbering system from 1 ...

There is good news for authors and publishers of books and journals. They can now obtain their International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for their books ...