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Old 01-03-2015, 05:22 PM   #272
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
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/

I take it you've never curated an online book database? Without isbn/asin numbers, it is a NIGHTMARE.
Metadata does nothing for me when I don't have it available externally.
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