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 ...

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 ...