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One place to get the numbers is the Library of Congress catalog, although this will tend to give an American ISBN over, say, an Indian (see one of the National Depository Centres) or Australian (see National Library Australia) ISBN. For a Canadian number, you can use the Canadian ISBN Service System – CISS. If you are adding an ISBN, remember ...
Special:BookSources is the page to which each ISBN links. It links to many sources for a book throughout the world. You can also manually enter an ISBN – but you should click the linked ISBN to WP:Verify that the link is good. Category:International Standard Book Number includes all Wikipedia articles and templates directly related to ISBNs.
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier that is intended to be unique. [a] [b] Publishers purchase or receive ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency. [2] A different ISBN is assigned to each separate edition and variation of a publication, but not to a simple reprinting of an ...
The registration group or identifier group is the second element in a 13-digit ISBN (first element in a 10-digit ISBN) and indicates the country, geographic region, or language area where a book was published. [1] The element ranges from one to five numerical digits. [1]
This is how the printer's key may appear in the first print run of a book. In this common example numbers are removed with subsequent printings, so if "1" is seen then the book is the first printing of that edition. If it is the second printing then the "1" is removed, meaning that the lowest number seen will be "2". [3]
Omenuko by Pita Nwana (by trade a carpenter [1]) is the first novel to be written in the Igbo language, [2] and the book was very successful among the Igbo people. [1] The book tells the life story of the politician Igwegbe Odum, an Aro Igbo who migrated to Arondizuogu.
Masquerade Books; Rhinoceros Books; Rosebud Books 56367 Fairchild Books Inc. New York, US 56389 DC Comics: New York, US 56456 Kessinger Publishing also: 1-4253 and 0-7661 56458 Dorling Kindersley New York, US 56476 Chariot Victor Publishing, now part of David C. Cook: 56496 Rockport Publishing 56512 Algonquin Books: Chapel Hill 56545
Avenel Books; Bonanza Books; Crescent Books; Gramercy Books; Harrison House; Wings Books; often as distributor now part of Penguin Random House: 518 Books for Libraries Press 520 University of California Press: 521 Cambridge University Press: 522 Melbourne University Press: worldwide distribution by Cambridge University Press: 523 Pinnacle ...