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Originally Posted by crich70
Interesting. I never knew it was divided up like that. Of course it makes sense. Far easier to keep track of things from publisher, to warehouse, to bookstore I imagine. Banks do something similar. Their 'routing number' on checks that depositors get from them identify which bank issued them. Not which branch but the bank overall. So Bank One has a different routing # than First Federal for example. So that if I write you a check you can take it to your bank where they scan the routing number and find my account from the account # which is also on the check. Otherwise I can't imagine how hard it would be to do any banking. It makes sense that books do something similar.
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In magazines, the supplemental is 2 digits of Issue (month)
(Can you tell I worked with POS back office configuration
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The Bar code system was pretty well thought out (they did miss in a few places). The current 6-pak of soda/beer is a problem. There is no barcode on that plastic carrier. the barcode is on the can... SO... it cause problems with 'singles' as the code on the can commonly represents 6 cans
