What Is a Books ISBN?

Question

What does it mean? what is it?

Answer 1

Every book (published) has a ISBN it is a number on the bottom right of most books that is affixed in order to provide its title and name. It is used for accurate book readings rather than searching a book by its title or author just use the ISBN.

Answer 2

Here's a quote from this site: http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/...

What is an ISBN?

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a 10-digit number that uniquely identifies books and book-like products published internationally.

What is the purpose of an ISBN?

The purpose of the ISBN is to establish and identify one title or edition of a title from one specific publisher and is unique to that edition, allowing for more efficient marketing of products by booksellers, libraries, universities, wholesalers and distributors.

What is the format of the ISBN?

Every ISBN consists of ten digits and whenever it is printed it is preceded by the letters ISBN. The ten-digit number is divided into four parts of variable length, each part separated by a hyphen.

Answer 3

Hi,

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a 10-digit number that uniquely identifies books and book-like products published internationally.

Answer 4

ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number. Every single book has a ISBN number to uniquely identify it. Since Jan 1 2007 all ISBN numbers are 13 digits long, prior to that date books had 10 digit ISBN numbers.

Hardcover, library binding and paperback editions of books will all have different ISBNs.