Re: [Koha-devel] Question about Acquisitions and 'Biblios in koha'
British and American editions occasionally differ enough to warrant entirely separate typesetting, but often to save money the same text is shared between British and American publishers. Two allow the British and America editions to be distinguished for marketing and inventory purposes, both a British and American ISBN are sometimes included in the same work. The "International" part of the ISBN is that it's supposed to be a unique identifier that can be used everywhere to identify a particular edition from a particular publisher.
From: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges@skemotah.com> To: "Roger Horne" <roger@hrothgar.co.uk> CC: "koha-devel" <koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Question about Acquisitions and 'Biblios in koha' Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:07:17 -0400 (EDT)
Roger, I don't think I've ever seen anything like what you describe. (I always assumed the 'I' in 'ISBN' really meant "international!") Is this fairly common outside the US?
MARC records let you repeat the ISBN tag. Koha doesn't.
Stephen
Roger Horne said: <snip>
Purely out of interest, what are Koha and other systems meant to do with a book that lists on its back cover separate ISBNs for different countries eg "An Introduction to the History of Printing Types", Dowding, The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, has "0712345779 (UK) and 1884718434 (US)" printed on the outside.
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On Sat 01 May, Roger Hiles wrote:
British and American editions occasionally differ enough to warrant entirely separate typesetting, but often to save money the same text is shared between British and American publishers. Two allow the British and America editions to be distinguished for marketing and inventory purposes, both a British and American ISBN are sometimes included in the same work. ...
From: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges@skemotah.com> ... Roger, I don't think I've ever seen anything like what you describe. (I always assumed the 'I' in 'ISBN' really meant "international!") Is this fairly common outside the US?
MARC records let you repeat the ISBN tag. Koha doesn't.
I see from inside the book that there are actually 4 ISBNs, US and UK and cased and paperback ... And the LoC details are also printed on that page. Thanks for the explanations. r. -- Roger Horne, 11 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 3QB mailto:roger@hrothgar.co.uk
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