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In 2007, the length of an ISBN changed from 10 to 13 digits, and a new 3-digit prefix (978 or 979) was added in front of 10-digit ISBNs. [2] The following registration groups are compatible with or without a 978- prefix: 0–5; 600–639; 64–69; 7; 80–94; 950–989; 9900–9989; 99900–99999; The following must have a 979- prefix:
The ISBN registration group element is a 1-to-5-digit number that is valid within a single prefix element (i.e. one of 978 or 979), [17]: 11 and can be separated between hyphens, such as "978-1-...". Registration groups have primarily been allocated within the 978 prefix element. [41]
Most of UCC 979 (formerly "Musicland") has now been assigned for the expansion of Bookland, [3] and was first used by publishers in the French language, which can now use the additional prefix "979-10-" in addition to the nearly full "978-2-" prefix (onto which legacy 10-character ISBNs starting with "2-" have been remapped). Books numbered ...
978–979 "Bookland" – 979-0 used for sheet music ("Musicland", ISMN-13, replaces deprecated ISMN M- numbers) 980: Refund receipts 981–983: GS1 coupon identification for common currency areas 990–999: GS1 coupon identification
The ISBN-13 is often found near the barcode and will start with either 978- or 979-. However, if an older work only lists an ISBN-10, use that in citations instead of calculating an ISBN-13 for it. This is because ISBNs are often used as search strings and checksum differences between the two forms make it difficult to find items listed only ...
The EAN "country code" 978 (and later 979) has been allocated since the 1980s to reserve a Unique Country Code (UCC) prefix for EAN identifiers of published books, regardless of country of origin, so that the EAN space can catalog books by ISBNs [3] rather than maintaining a redundant parallel numbering system.
For instance ISBN 9781535956956. 5361 Nova Science Publishers Inc For instance ISBN 9781536121131. 5362 Candlewick For instance ISBN 9781536208870. 5365 Rukia Publishing For instance ISBN 9781536533682. 5366 Audible Studios on Brilliance audio For instance ISBN 9781536609813. 5368–5375 CreateSpace 5378 Blurb Jovian Press, Charles River Editors
also assigned other ISBN 0- and 1- publisher codes 7872 Kendall/Hunt Publishing 7873 Mokelumme Press 7876 Gale Research: 7879 Jossey-Bass Publishers now part of Wiley: 7880 Academic Renewal Press 7881 National Defence University Press 7884 Heritage Books 7885 Scholars Press 7886 MPI Media Group 7888 Buena Vista Home Entertainment 7890