"There's a shift under way at the retailer level, and the entire U.S. marketplace is moving to a 13-digit ISBN," says Pat Harris, executive director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a nonprofit association that develops technical standards, in Bethesda, Md. "Small publishers may be faced with a capacity issue in the next few years. We want to be prepared."
ISBN Changes Could Cost Publishers
"There's a shift under way at the retailer level, and the entire U.S. marketplace is moving to a 13-digit ISBN," says Pat Harris, executive director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a nonprofit association that develops technical standards, in Bethesda, Md. "Small publishers may be faced with a capacity issue in the next few years. We want to be prepared."