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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
IIRC, there's no requirement that 13 digit ISBN start with any fixed set of numbers. The only reason that most (all?) current ISBN 13s do so is because those two spaces haven't been exhausted as yet.
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The EAN council controls the numbering (bar code)
977 (ISSN) Periodicals
978 and 979 (Book Lan AKA ISBN-13)
98 and 99 are already assigned to (coupons)
I did not see lower 97[0-6] on the list
It may have been short sighted
of them wen this was started about 20 years ago, not to reserve a larger block.