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Originally Posted by igorius
(I have been working some time in a book-shop, so isbn is the most important thing for me to distinguish books! On the other hand i find it interesting that long time ago (isbn-10 times) some isbns were given to different books, say you can find 2 books with different titles and autors but the same isbn)
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1 of 2 things.
1) A long time ago, I received an order from a publisher. I
received orders using the barcode. Fail. 'No open PO' with that ISBN13.
It also turns out that I stocked another book with the same (was correct) barcode, which would have been really bad as reorders were done from sales reports. Turns out the print run had to be over stickered. ERRORS Happen.
2) Faked ISBN to avoid paying the fee (vanity press published). I used to install grocery checkout systems. I recieved a complaint about a new store having trouble building the PLU table:Not allowed or Exists (or worse).
Turns out a lot of imported from Asian sources had faked the barcode.
(The worse was they faked in the wrong series: Variable weight group: Like used in the deli section)