Xref: utzoo comp.text:7769 comp.databases:8214 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mtxinu!jaap From: jaap@mtxinu.COM (Jaap Akkerhuis) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.databases Subject: Re: ISBN numbers Message-ID: <1990Dec19.201814.7587@mtxinu.COM> Date: 19 Dec 90 20:18:14 GMT References: <1990Dec17.205911.15073@mtxinu.COM> <1990Dec19.030040.27240@cbnewsl.att.com> Reply-To: jaap@mtxinu.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley Lines: 24 > In article <1990Dec17.205911.15073@mtxinu.COM>, jaap@mtxinu.COM (Jaap > Akkerhuis) writes that a single book can have multiple ISBNs. It's > worth pointing out that the hardcover and paperback versions of the > same book have different ISBNs. > > > [My book] has the ISBN 0-387-97397-4 as well as 3-540-97397-4. > > > The 0 for the USA and 387 for the publisher, Springer Verlag, New > > York, while in the other number 3 stands for Germany and 540 for > > Springer Verlag Berlin-Heidelberg. I seem to remember that 90 is > > the code for the Netherlands. > > I thought the first number was for the *language*, not the country. I > could be wrong. > Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I really meant one physical book with more then one number. In fact, the two numbers are printed on the back underneath each other. There is no translation of the book (yet). jaap