Bookland

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For other uses, see Bookland (disambiguation).

"Bookland" is the informal name for the

ISBN
rather than maintaining a redundant parallel numbering system. In other words, Bookland is a fictitious country that exists solely in EAN for the purposes of non-geographically cataloguing books in the otherwise geographically keyed EAN coding system.

History

Until January 1, 2007, all ISBNs were allocated as 9-digit numbers followed by a modulo 11 checksum character that was either a decimal digit or the letter "X". A Bookland EAN was generated by concatenating the Bookland UCC 978, the 9 digits of the book's ISBN other than its checksum, and the EAN checksum digit.[1][2]

Since parts of the 10-character ISBN space are nearly full, all books published from 2007 on have been allocated a 13-digit ISBN, which is identical to the Bookland EAN. Most of UCC 979 (formerly "Musicland") has now been assigned for the expansion of Bookland,[3] and was first used by publishers in the French language, which can now use the additional prefix "979-10-" in addition to the nearly full "978-2-" prefix (onto which legacy 10-character ISBNs starting with "2-" have been remapped). Books numbered with prefixes other than 978 will not be mappable to 10-character ISBNs.

The

International ISBN Agency
, which maintains the official international registry of ISBN numbers allocated to book publishers.

Similar mappings

  • periodical publications) are mapped into the UCC 977.[4]
  • ISMNs (which identify sheet music) are mapped into the UCC 979. Since the leading "M" of a legacy 10-digit ISMN number (such as M-345-24680-5) is transcoded as 0, the EAN prefix 979-0 is wholly reserved for sheet music and has been dubbed the fictitious country "Musicland". Like ISBNs, ISMNs have been officially allocated using 13 digits since mid-2008.[5]

References

  1. ^ Pearce, Bill (March 16, 2015). "Anatomy of a 13-digit ISBN". Archived from the original on May 15, 2020.
  2. ISBN 978-0-12-372487-8
    .
  3. ISBN 978-1-897435-02-1
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  4. ^ "GS1 Company Prefix | GS1". www.gs1.org. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  5. ^ "Guidelines for the Implementation of 13-Digit ISMNs" (PDF). ISMN International. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 21, 2017.

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