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To search for a different book, type that book's individual ISBN into this ISBN search box. Spaces and hyphens in the ISBN do not matter. Also, the number starts after the colon for "ISBN-10:" and "ISBN-13:" numbers. An ISBN identifies a specific edition of a book. Any given title may therefore have a number of different ISBNs.
ISBNdb.com is a large online database of book information available both via web interface and API. The database includes title, author, ISBN, ISBN13, publisher, publishing date, binding, pages, list price, and more. [1] It contains data on 33+ million books by more than 11 million authors, with more books added every day. [2]
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]
In addition to identifying (a particular edition of) a book, ISBNs allow one to search for the book, both at libraries and bookstores. You can enter an ISBN on this Wikipedia ISBN search page. Spaces and hyphens in the ISBN do not matter. ISBN links, or the ISBN search, take users to a special book source page, Wikipedia:Book sources.
Advance copy – a free promotional copy of a book given by a publisher to booksellers, librarians, journalists, or others, or as a contest or school prize, before the book is printed for mass distribution. Alphabet book – a book primarily designed for young children representing letters of the alphabet with corresponding words and/or images.
a 5-digit number assigned by the publisher that is unique to the publication item within the serial or book; a check digit (0-9 or X) When a PII is printed (as opposed to stored in a database), the 17-character string may be extended with punctuation characters to make it more readable to humans, as in Sxxxx-xxxx(yy)iiiii-d or Bx-xxx-xxxxx-x ...
Citer: Converts a URL, DOI, ISBN, PMID, PMCID, OCLC, or Google Books URL into a citation and shortened footnote. It also can generate citations for certain major news websites (e.g., The New York Times) and the Wayback Machine. Citoid: A tool built into both Visual Editor and source editor that attempts to build a full citation based on a URL.