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Originally Posted by peterdanckwerts
All I'm saying is that Calibre doesn't default to good practice. It shouldn't encourage users to apply the same ISBN to different formats.
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I'd say the publishing industry doesn't default to good practice. It shouldn't be requiring the assignation of ISBNs to ebooks, and certainly not different ones to the same edition in different formats. This is the information age, one of the wonderful features of the information age is that information is easily manipulated by
everybody, including individuals. That means that individuals can and will manipulate books: customize them, convert them to the format they like the best and generally,
do whatever they like with them. As such an identifier system tied to specific formats is anachronistic, at best.