Document Library: Standards: ISBN-13

ISBN-13: For Publishers....

Manufacturing Changes

Books with publication dates earlier than January 2007 may have both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 on the copyright page.

Books with publication dates earlier than January 2007 may have both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 printed above EAN bar code on the back of the book (i.e., Cover 4).

Titles with publications dates of January 2007 or later must have only ISBN-13 on copyright page and above EAN bar code.

Backlist product reprinted after January 2007 should have only ISBN-13 on the copyright page and above the EAN bar code. However, publishers may continue printing both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 where their market requires both or where the publisher anticipates few, if any, subsequent reprintings.

As of January 2007, UPC bar code should not be printed on any titles, frontlist or backlist. The Bookland EAN-13 bar code with a human-readable ISBN-13 above it should be printed on Cover 4 (the back cover).