David Gerard wrote:
On 03/09/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I have never been keen on ISBNs either. In addition to older works that never had an ISBN in the first place, works with a long history of different editions can have any number of ISBNs, and at some point it would be helpful to be able to compare various editions.
Yes. ISBNs are useful indeed, but they were created for the use of the publishing industry and are per *edition* rather than per *book*.
- d.
Hoi, Librarians are aware of this, that is one reason why the notion of the Wikicat, to follow the conventions of librarians has merit. Thanks, GerardM