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From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
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Subject: Why city and state in bibliographies?
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Date: 2 Nov 90 02:45:48 GMT
Reply-To: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
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I've been looking through some bibliographies, and I notice that many of the
books have bibliographies that cite the title, author(s), copyright date, and 
the place of publication (normally city and state).  Some others list the name
of the publisher.  Why is it that the place of publication is listed?  Knowing
that a book was published in New York, New York is not going to do you a whole 
lot of good if you want to find the publisher.  I realize that there's some
chance of duplication in the names of publishers, and some publishers no longer
exist (having gone out of business or merged with another publisher), but 
still, that seems a much more useful piece of information.

When I was writing papers, the guidelines were to do bibliographies with the
place, not the publisher.  Is this changing?  And is there hope that the books
will someday include ISBN numbers as well?