Thread: When did Kobo's store starting using "Book ID" instead of ISBN?
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Old 06-29-2025, 05:49 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
Someone cheated, or made a strange mistake*. An ISBN has to be issued by an agency and is unique even for different sizes of same content. An ebook can't legally use a paper book's ISBN, even if the same content and publisher.

[* There is a check digit]

—wikipedia ISBN
From what I understood, the author used a site that supplied them with an ISBN not realizing that the site was not a legitimate site. After several complaints including from Bowker (USA) and Library and Archives (Canada), the site was shut down.
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