Hi Jill!
I recommend checking out:
http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp
On the "About" page
(http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/about_information_s
tandards.asp), I read:
". . . in the perspective of 50,000 new products each
year - which is the (rather amazing) output of the U.S.
publishing industry over the last few years. This
characteristic of the publishing industry, that each
new title, new edition, new binding, is treated as a
separate new product is one of the major obstacles
to unique and meaningful product data transmission
within the publishing industry."
The implication: A revised edition requires a diffeernt
ISBN.
In the FAQ from the United States ISBN Agency
(http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/us/isbnqa.asp), I
found:
"What is the purpose of an ISBN?
"The purpose of the ISBN is to establish and identify
one title or edition of a title from one specific publisher
and is unique to that edition, allowing for more
efficient marketing of products by booksellers, libraries,
universities, wholesalers and distributors."
Again, if you have this book reprinted in a revised edition
by a different publisher, you'll need a new ISBN.
But, ultimately, check with:
U.S. ISBN Agency
630 Central Avenue
New Providence, NJ 07974
Tel: 877-310-7333
Fax: 908-665-2895
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Best wishes, sincerely,
Jay Heuman, Visitor & Volunteer Services Coordinator
Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, 68102
342-3300 (telephone) 342-2376 (fax) www.joslyn.org
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> Hi all.
>
> Looking for someone knowledgeable about ISBN
> numbers. Our institution published a book about 10
> years ago with a printer who got our ISBN number for
> us. The curator and I have recently re-edited/revised
> the book (we're calling it the 2nd edition). We sent
> out for bids last week for printing.
>
> In doing our bids, we sent out to the guy who printed
> it for us before. He says that if we use another printer,
> we must get another ISBN number because that's
> "his" number. Anyone know about this?
>
> And he's probably the cheaper printer, but I really
> don't want to use him though because he basically
> makes photocopies and binds them...
>
> Anyone out there know about ISBNs?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Jill Dixon
> SMC MUSEUM
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