180:@EdJohnston The bibliographers of the world, of whom I am one, are indeed annoyed by changes in actual text with no change in ISBN, but in works of fiction at least, this is a common occurrence. I could find many examples. Publishers have no reason to care, since they generally don't permit or desire separate ordering of old variations, nor care about bibliography. Libraries often don't seem to care much about textual variations in works of popular fiction. This leaves specialist bibliographers and collectors as the people who get annoyed. I am not arguing for what "should" be true, merely that the article accurately describe the actual practice, in which ISBNs are often retained across significant variation, contrary to the pre-ISBN practice of many publishers, when a change of catalog number had little cost.
142:@DESiegel, how would you rephrase it? I assume that a publisher would not want to offer two different editions in their catalog with the same ISBN at two different prices. That would defeat the benefit of using the ISBN as a stock number. It's easier to imagine a book with an old cover being silently replaced by one with a new cover at the same price, with no separate orderability of the two versions. I imagine that the librarians of the world would be annoyed if the actual text of the book were modified (except for errata) with no change in ISBN.
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publishers (Ace Books for one) did indeed change their stock/catlog numbers with each price change. (I am referring to the printed cover price, which may or may not be the price actually charged by a book seller, but is considered a significant bibliographic datum for works of popular fiction. Note that there never was a Net Books act or equivalent in the US to my knowledge, but the cover price there is still significant.) And I have seen the same ISBN used on both printed and e-book versions of a text.
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outnumbers the number of editions published with. All sorts of internal workplace guides, family albums, etc. are printed, all sans ISBN, and most of them never get reprinted. Also, I suspect that most of the material that gets printed without an ISBN, by any count, never sees a new reprint with an ISBN, if for no other reason than the fact that most books don't see a reprint.--
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Yes that is so (Well in theory the Agency could only offer ISBNs to publishers who would sign a a contract to comply with certain rules. But they do not do this, and even if they did, monitoring would probably be impractical.) But our article should not state as fact that publishers use ISBNs in (and
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Indeed but the present wording, implying if not stating that any variation receives a new ISBN would also be hard to source, and is currently unsourced. I can find specific examples of works that retained the same ISBN despite textual changes, but I don't know off-hand of a source that discusses this
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It is known that the ISBN-10 system grew out of the older SBN system. The latter had nine digits; and any valid SBN may be converted to a valid 10-digit ISBN simply by prepending with a zero. I have just found a book which has printed on the back "SBN 0 901115 32 0", so, other editors be warned: that
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The article now states that "An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation (except reprintings) of a book." but in practice, publishers often retain the same ISBN for variations such as: increased cover price; new cover art; new introductions or afterwords; and resetting of the text. This may be
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I would phrase it something like "An ISBN is in theory assigned to each edition and variation (except reprintings) of a book. Different publishers have different policies on how much variation causes them to use a changed ISBN or to describe a work as having a new edition, and no authority monitors
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The key word, IMO is "variation". In non-scholarly works, particularly in fiction, it is often very unclear what constitutes a "new edition". But a change in cover art, and surely the addition of significant text, such as a new introduction or afterword, is surely a variation. And pre-ISBN, several
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Prices are indeed more fluid than they once were. In the US they were never as fixed as they once were in the UK. They are, at least in the US, still printed on book covers, and most discount booksellers discvount at a fixed percentage, so that when the cover price goes up, so does the actual sale
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in fact result in a new ISBN, thus a reader or collector cannot reliably infer that an identical ISBN means identical binding, or identical content. "Variation", in the book collecting world, is a term at least as technical as "edition" and a work with identical content but a different cover is a
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in which publications with such variations often are verified as having identical ISBNs. I don't have a published citable source which says this. I am prety sure that the official "Rules" for use of an ISBN state tha a new ISBN should be used for "each edition and variation", but AIAIK no entity
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normally issues their ebook editions with the same ISBN as the corresponding first-issued printed edition, often a hardcover edition. I can cite specific titles and back this up with ISFDB records that are individually verified.) If it is needed, I can with greater effort find specific instances
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These document identifiers seem to be a computer science term that are unlikely to be a household word among our readers. I see no urgent need to distinguish document identifiers from book identifiers, and no need to link to a definition of document identifier from this article. Confusion of
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The article says "Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure; however, this is usually later rectified." I don't buy it. I suspect the number of editions of books published without ISBNs every year
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Sounds to me that the ISBNs get sold to the publishers, and after that, there is not much further control that the Agency can exert. So we have a good source as to what the recommendations are, but after that, we have no source as to what the publishers do with the ISBNs.
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I've removed the hatnote for now. Possibly there is an existing bluelink that covers the same topic? (I've no time to research thoroughly, but here's a list from a quick search for potential targets:
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An alternative to a non-existing RS would be to have a wiki page that is not a
Knowledge page. The rules on original research are for this encyclopedia and have no bearing on other wiki projects.
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