Thread: UK e-book prices to rise from 1st January 2015
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Old 01-03-2015, 02:26 PM   #270
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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks View Post
Actually if you load directly to Kobo, they do not require the ISBN. If you do it through a distributor there is a requirement.
Apple recommends them but do *not* require it.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/working-.../book-faq.html

ISBNs are a legacy of the pbook era that is redundant in the ebook world because any ebookstore (or book management system) can just read the metadata inside the file itself to distinguish between titles and editions, as any Calibre user can attest to. Even in the tradpub pundit world, the primacy of metadata is fully established by now.

http://www.idealog.com/blog/metadata...to-know-about/
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