[Koha-devel] Question about Acquisitions and 'Biblios in koha'

[Roger Horne]

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 at 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.
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