ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier An Evolution in Book Identification Simple Steps to ISBN -13 For Everybody

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 1 – Understand the basic nature of the ISBN change: The ISBN is the tool we use to identify books: – in daily communications. – in business transactions. with customers, co-workers and trading partners. Changing the ISBN standard means we are changing the way we label and identify books in daily communications and in business trade.

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 2 – Standards adoption is voluntary: There is no law or regulation requiring trading partners to adopt ISBN-13. Each organisation must decide whether, when and how to adopt ISBN-13. Organisations adopt standards because they provide an efficient predefined way to transact business with trading partners.

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 3 – Readiness to adopt ISBN-13 will vary by trading partner: Early Adopters – are ready now. On Time Adopters – ready by January Delayed Adopters – not ready by Non Adopters – not planning to change.

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 4 – 10 Digit ISBNs are not going away : 10 Digit ISBNs exist on millions of books in print. Substantial inventories of books with 10 digit ISBNs exist in publisher warehouses and in the supply chain. Many publishers have substantial supplies of unassigned 10 digit ISBNs. Some publishers will continue to include 10 digit ISBNs on new books until they are satisfied the marketplace is able to handle 13 digits.

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 5 – There are standard rules for converting the ISBN-10 into ISBN-13: Begin with any 10 digit ISBN: Eliminate the check digit: Add the prefix “978” : Calculate a new check digit: The ISBN-10: Converts to the ISBN-13:

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 6 – Any ISBN-13 prefixed with “978” can be converted back to an ISBN-10: Any ISBN-13 prefixed with “978” : Eliminate the check digit: Drop the “978”: Compute a new check digit: The ISBN-13: Converts to the ISBN-10:

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier 1 Step 7 – The new 13 digit ISBN already appears on books: The new ISBN is the13 digit number currently displayed below and encoded within the Bookland EAN-13 bar code. It’s just not labelled as the ISBN. 

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 8 – The numbering capacity of the ISBN system is being expanded by introducing a new ISBN-EAN prefix: A new ISBN-EAN Prefix “979” will be introduced after January 1, The core 9 digits following “978” will be used with “979” and assigned to different publishers. –ISBN: –ISBN: Publisher Prefixes will be different for “979” ISBNs.

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 9 – It is not possible to convert an ISBN-13 beginning with “979” into a 10 digit ISBN: 10 digit ISBN’s will not exist for 13 digit ISBN’s beginning with “979”. Trading partners need to use 13 digits if they wish to handle these books.

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 11 – Book labelling prior to 2007: SSC and other book standard organisations currently recommend displaying the ISBN-10 above the Bookland bar code on the back cover of all books published prior to January ISBN: 

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 12 – Book labelling from 2007: SSC and other book standard organisations recommend displaying the ISBN-13 above the Bookland EAN-13 bar code on the back cover of books published on or after January 1, ISBN: 

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 13 – Not recommended but expect to see books labelled with dual ISBNs as the industry makes the transition to ISBN-13: ISBN-10: ISBN-13:

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 14 – The ISBN-13 is part of a larger family of product identifiers under the EAN.UCC System: EAN = EAN International GTIN = Global Trade Item Number UCC = Uniform Code Council Any EAN.UCC system product identifier Any EAN-14 is a GTIN - includes the ISBN-13 Any UCC-12 (aka UPC-12) is a GTIN

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 15 – The EAN.UCC rule for converting any GTIN into the EAN/UCC- 14 digit form is to: Right justify and left zero fill. EAN/UCC-13 ( ISBN-13): EAN-13 as EAN/UCC-14: UCC-12 (aka UPC-12): UCC-12 as EAN/UCC-14:

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 16 – The Book Industry standards for EDI will change: Original BISAC fixed formats are inflexible and will not be updated. BISAC fixed format users must upgrade to: –ONIX and Other XML standards as they are defined. –ASC X12 or EDIFACT - allows transmission of Book Identifiers as ISBN-10, ISBN-13 (EAN-13) or EAN/UCC-14, separately or simultaneously.

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 17 – Develop an ISBN-13 Implementation Strategy for your Organisation: Identify where ISBNs are used. Determine where business processes need to change. Introduce capability to handle ISBN-13, along with all other EAN-13s and GTIN where applicable. Retain capability to handle ISBN-10.

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Step 18 – Work with your employees, system providers, book suppliers, libraries and industry organizations to: Inform and educate employees, suppliers, and customers about the change. Phase In use of ISBN-13. Phase Out use of ISBN-10. Produce or capture appropriate metadata. Develop a method of receiving and sending metadata – ONIX recommended.

ISBN 13 – The new Book Identifier Where to get more information: Australian Publishers Association – Book Industry Study Group - US – Editeur – An International organisation developing EDI for Books and serials. – BIC – Book Industry Communication - UK – This presentation will be available for download from the APA web site above.

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