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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
It is actually much smaller than that. Only three digits are used to identify the book itself, so that gives the same publisher only 1,000 ISBNs for each country code (unless the publisher has more than one publisher code).
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The different parts are variable. Country code is one or more digits, publisher code also. So some large publishers can have more then three digits, small publishers less.
As for your suggestion to create a totally different number, as far as I am concerned, just keep the ISBN. Publishers, booksellers, libraries, everybody is using it. It would cost way too much, to rebuild all there systems.
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Originally Posted by fugazied
AFAIK In the library a book has the same ISBN because it is the same work, then it has additional data in their records stating if it's an ebook, book, pdf, whatever.
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O no ! A real librarian would want a different ISBN for a pBook and for an eBook. Because the bibliographic rules say so, and because handling these books differs.