ISBN Information
There is no legal requirement to give your book an ISBN (International Standard Book Number). However without an ISBN a book cannot be ordered through retail and online bookshops as all electronic ordering systems use the ISBN as a unique identifying reference code for book searches.
The ISBN also provides access to your printed work from a number of bibliographic databases such as BookData Online, these databases are used by booksellers and libraries to provide information to their customers.
ISBN's are assigned to individual Publishers a 'Publisher' is normally the person or body responsible for taking the financial risk in making the product available for sale to the public. The UK ISBN agency can only issue ISBN numbers to Publishers registered or living in the UK and Ireland. They are available in blocks of 10 numbers current price is £107.18 including VAT for 10 numbers (1/2009).
Nielsen BookData UK ISBN Agency
Products which do not qualify for ISBN's include the following; Serials/Periodicals/Journals, Calendars, Diaries (subject to textual content), Videos, Computer Games, Music Scores, Non Text-based publications and publications where sales are restricted to smaller groups of people or societies. Educational resource material does not require an ISBN if only available to students' on a particular course.
ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) is the numbering system for magazines, periodicals, newspapers & newsletters, ISSN's are administered by the British Library.
Mybook Publisher.co.uk Book Printers do not issue ISBN numbers however we can add your ISBN number to the publication as requested.
Nielsen BookData ISBN Agency 0870 777 8712
The British Library (ISSN Information) 01937 546959
