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In this issue, the editor will bring you about the difference between ISSN and ISBN. The article is rich in content and analyzes and narrates it from a professional point of view. I hope you can get something after reading this article.

ISBN is the international standard book number, which is an international universal publication numbering method published by the International Organization for Standardization in 1972, while ISSN is the international standard number, which is based on the provisions of ISO-3297 formulated by the International Organization for Standardization in 1975.

ISBN bar code

It is a set of international unified numbering system developed for the needs of book publishing, management, and to facilitate the exchange and statistics of international publications, which is composed of a group of ten digits with the code name "ISBN". It is used to identify the country, region or language to which the publication belongs, the publishing institution, the title of the book, the edition and the way of binding. This number can also be said to be the representative number of the book.

The code of the book class in the EAN code is 978, that is, as long as the country code of EAN is changed to 978, and then the check code is recalculated, it is the ISBN bar code, which is the same. To put it simply, the corresponding relationship between ISBN and EAN is: 978 + the first 9 codes of ISBN + EAN check code. The following picture shows the structure diagram of ISBN bar code.

The above is the difference between ISSN and ISBN shared by the editor. If you happen to have similar doubts, you might as well refer to the above analysis to understand. If you want to know more about it, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel.

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