ISBN-13 For Industry Segments
How does the ISBN-13 transition affect specific industry segments? Read below to find out!
Click on an segment below for detailed information:What does the ISBN-13 transition mean for IT Professionals?
The ISBN-13 transition required some IT Professionals to make system changes to accommodate a longer product identification number.Those organizations who have made, and are still making, system changes to accommodate ISBN-13 are encouraged to allow space to accommodate the full range of GTIN system product identifiers up to 14 digits long.
The GTIN is a globally unique GS1 System identification number for products and services. A GTIN may be 8, 12, 13, or 14 digits in length, represented as GTIN-8, GTIN-12, GTIN-13, and GTIN-14 respectively.
The ISBN-13 is an GTIN-13 number and part of the global GTIN system that is widely used to identify most types of consumer goods. BISG, in compliance with the GTIN system, recommends using a GTIN-14 data structure to store, view and exchange any Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) electronically under the GTIN system.
Organizations that have not and do not expand their database fields to 14 digits may find themselves at a future disadvantage if the book industry decides to implement the GTIN-14 sometime down the line.
Remember:
- There is no standard for converting ISBN-13s beginning with '979' into ISBN-10s.
- ISBN-10s will not exist for ISBN-13s beginning with '979'.
See also:
- EDI Strategies for the Book Industry and the 13-digit ISBN
- Barcoding Guidelines for the U.S. Book Industry
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What does the ISBN-13 transition mean for School Districts?
The ISBN-13 transition has required school districts (along with all other segments of the book industry) to begin using 13-digit product identifiers when transacting business with their suppliers for books and instructional materials. Each school district's textbook requisitioning/purchasing system needs to accommodate 13-digit identification numbers. Some school districts may need to implement a systems change in order to accommodate this.See also:
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What does the ISBN-13 transition mean for Retailers?
The ISBN-13 transition has required retailers (along with all other segments of the book industry) to begin using 13-digit product identifiers when transacting business with publishers and wholesalers as of January 1, 2007.This means that as of January 1, 2007, every retailer's system must accommodate 13-digit identification numbers. Some retailers may need to implement a systems change in order to accommodate this.
Retailers in all markets should discuss the ISBN-13 transition with their store POS systems vendors and/or in-house IT personnel to ensure that they are handling the change correctly.
All information printed by publishers and wholesalers which currently references an ISBN-10 needs to be changed to reflect the new ISBN-13 (i.e., catalogs, price sheets, new title cards, invoices, etc.). Retailers need to be able to communicate with trading partners (i.e., place and receive orders) using ISBN-13.
Internal systems must be converted so that staff members will be able to store and search for titles using 13 digits. Internal records to be reviewed include:
- Point of Sale (POS)
- Title Records and related data bases
- Order Processing
- Receiving
- Returns Processing
- Special Orders
- Order Fulfillment
- Screens
- Reports
- Forms exchanged with trading partners
- Electronic formats exchanged with trading partners
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What does the ISBN-13 transition mean for Libraries?
The ISBN-13 transition has required libraries (along with all other segments of the book industry) to begin using 13-digit product identifiers when transacting business with their customers and their retail and wholesale distributors as of January 1, 2007.This means that as of January 1, 2007, every library's system needs to accommodate 13-digit identification numbers. Some libraries may need to implement a systems change in order to accommodate this.
Library systems -- acquisitions, cataloging, OPACs, and all other modules -- must be converted so that staff members are able to communicate with customers and outside trading partners using 13 digits.
Technical Considerations
Technical services needed for implementation of the ISBN-13 in most libraries will be provided by Integrated Library System (ILS) vendors. These vendors should provide solutions to such issues as:
- that the ISBN will become a thirteen-digit number as of January 1, 2007;
- that the 13-digit ISBN (ISBN-13) and the 13-digit number represented by the Bookland EAN bar code for any given book will be identical;
- that sometime after January 1, 2007, national ISBN agencies will begin issuing ISBN-13s with a prefix of '979';
- that, once '979' prefixes are issued, 'parsing' an ISBN-13 / Bookland EAN by stripping off the initial three digits, recalculating the check digit and storing the resulting ten-digit number will no longer be a viable option (because a '978' ISBN and a '979' ISBN, both having the same nine-digit core, will both convert to the same ten-digit number);
- that, once the ISBN becomes a 13-digit number, the old BISAC Fixed-format for electronic orders and order acknowledgements will be unable to handle the new, longer number, and will thus have to be replaced with a different EDI format.
CIP Program Policy in Regard to Implementation of ISBN-13
Prior to October 2004, the CIP Division will not include ISBN-13s either in distributed CIP records or non-distributed ibc (initial bibliographic control) Preassigned Control Number records.
For books processed through the CIP program prior to October 2004 projected to be published during the interim period (January 2005 through December 2006), publishers themselves are encouraged to add ISBN-13s to the CIP data printed in the book according to the IIA implementation guidelines. ISBN-13s that appear in the published books will be added to CIP bibliographic records upon receipt of the books at LC.
Beginning October 1, 2004, for CIP bibliographic records and other bibliographic records, LC will group pairs of 10 and 13 digit ISBNs by manifestation in repeated MARC 21 020 fields, the ISBN 13 preceding the associated ISBN-10.
Beginning October 1, 2004, the CIP Division has agreed temporarily to adopt the style for printing ISBN pairs recommended by the IIA implementation guidelines (i.e., printed on separate lines one pair beneath the other) rather than following the standard style for printed CIP data (i.e., printed one after the other as part of a single paragraph of the CIP data, each instance of an ISBN separated from the preceding instance by a space-dash-space).
Beginning October 1, 2004, although all ISBN pairs provided by publishers will be input into the CIP bibliographic record, to accommodate publisher title page verso space concerns, no more than two ISBN pairs will be provided in the CIP data supplied to publishers to be printed on the verso of the title page. To indicate that additional ISBN pairs are present in the bibliographic record beyond those provided in the printed CIP data, "[etc.]" will be printed on the line under the last ISBN provided in the data. The standard paragraph style will be retained in instances when a publisher provides only ISBN-10s.
Upon full implementation of ISBN-13 ca. January 2007, anticipating that publishers will supply only an ISBN-13 for each manifestation, the style for printing multiple instances will revert to that of standard printed CIP data (i.e., one after the other as part of a single paragraph of the CIP data, each instance of an ISBN separated from the preceding instance by a space-dashspace). All ISBNs provided in the CIP bibliographic record will be included in the CIP data.
In conjunction with updates to the CIP application form, BISAC will also work with the Network Development and MARC Standards Office at LC to facilitate updates to the MARC record format.
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What does the ISBN-13 transition mean for Publishers?
The ISBN-13 transition has required publishers (along with all other segments of the book industry) to begin using 13-digit product identifiers when transacting business with their retail and wholesale distributors starting January 1, 2007.This means that as of January 1, 2007, all publisher systems need to accommodate 13-digit identification numbers. Some publishers may need to implement a systems change in order to accommodate this.
As of January 1, 2007, all information printed by a publisher that references an ISBN-10 must be changed to reflect the new ISBN-13 (i.e., catalogs, price sheets, new title cards, invoices, etc.).
Internal sources of ISBN, such as computer screens and reports, must be converted so that staff members will be able to communicate with trading partners using 13 digits. Additional internal publisher records to review include:
- Title Records and related databases
- Invoices
- Order Processing
- Receiving
- Returns Processing
- Order Fulfillment
- Registration Agency transactions - BIP, CIP, etc.
- Accounting - royalty tracking
- Catalogs (both print and electronic)
- Screens
- Reports
- Forms exchanged with trading partners
- Electronic formats exchanged with trading partners
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 Cover 4 (the back cover).
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).
See also:
- EDI Strategies for the Book Industry and the 13-digit ISBN
- Barcoding Guidelines for the U.S. Book Industry
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