Book publishing number, abbreviated as ISBN, is the most intuitive one, which is the bar code and a series of numbers on the back cover of the book. It is distributed to all publishing houses by the General Administration of Press and Publication.

ISBN is an international number, which is specially used to identify books and other documents. ISO promulgated the ISBN international standard in 1972, and set up the international ISBN center in the Prussian Library in West Berlin, which is the management institution for implementing the standard. At present, publications using ISBN coding system include: books, pamphlets, microforms, Braille printed matter, etc.

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The development of the number of books published;

From June 5438 to October 2002 10, China revised the Chinese Standard Book Number (GB/T 5795- 1986), deleting the book classification/species number, and the Chinese standard book number is equivalent to the international standard book number structure.

In June, 2006, 65438+1October, 65438+1October, China National Standardization Administration officially approved and promulgated the national standard "China Standard Book Number" (GB/T 5795-2006), and in June, 2007, 65438+1October.

The publishing house should convert the ISBN-10 (including the books on the inventory list) still in circulation from June 5438 to October 2007 into ISBN- 13 format. New books published after June 65438+1 October12007 must be assigned a new ISBN- 13.

1976, China and hongkong introduced the international standard book number system. By 1986, Chinese mainland had introduced the international standard book number system. After 1989, Taiwan Province province of China introduced the international standard book number system.

In 2000, due to the transfer of power in Macao, the original country, language or region code "957" was changed to "99937". In June 2007, 65438+1 October1,and the format of ISBN was changed from 10 to 13.

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