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by BookMama on April 8th, 2009
The short explanation is that up until a few years ago, all books had ISBN 10 -- a 10 digit number given out to uniquely identify each book. But 10 digits can only cover so many books, so they switched to ISBN 13 -- a 13-digit number. There is a way to convert a book's ISBN 10 number to ISBN 13, so that bookstores, libraries, etc which wanted to switch to using ISBN 13 in their systems could handle books that only had a 10-digit ISBN.
by dea_ex_machina on March 23rd, 2009
I have no idea, but this article might explain it to you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN
by karl88 on November 13th, 2010
Isbn 13 is newer and it is compatible with the Europan Article Numbers (EAN).
E.g. on http://www.isbn-search.co.uk/ you see that a book has sometimes a isbn 10 and a isbn 13 number.
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Thanks. That's what I figured, but wow! That's a lot of books.
by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on April 8th, 2009