Talk:List of ISBN registration groups

Example ISBNs
Here are the rules I have attempted to follow in decreasing order of relevance: Circéus (talk) 04:34, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Only first editions and no translations
 * Prefer native authors
 * Prefer authors with articles to others (if the book itself has an article, even better)
 * Prefer general to specialised book (i.e. no academic monographs)
 * Prefer books in local languages, broadly construed
 * Prefer books with ISBN-10s to book with only ISBN-13
 * Use ISBN with a relatively shorter publisher code

Dutch
94 seems to be the Dutch language (including Dutch-speaking Belgium), rather than just the Netherlands. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1811:2C27:3400:5AB0:35FF:FE81:3641 (talk) 20:35, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

611
There's something very strange going on with this code. It's supposed to be assigned to Thailand, but I find a LOT of Ukrainian books I try to search for it... Circéus (talk) 20:13, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

ISBN 10
France has a new ISBN group 10, which will replace 2. See the website of AFNIL (Agence francophone pour la numérotation internationale du livre) L’apparition du 10 identifie l'AFNIL en tant qu'agence ISBN et se substitue au 2, numéro de groupe francophone. I don't know how you choose the example number, that's why I do not add the information in the list. Traumrune (talk) 13:15, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Simon Bolivar PEDROZA DURAN 4x4 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.84.61.76 (talk) 20:38, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Invalid ISBN-13 Example
The current ISBN-13 example for Douglas Adams' So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) is given as 9780330284983, which when validated externally is invalid. The correct ISBN-13 should be 9780330284981 to have the correct check digit. Attempting to correcting this lead to Wikipedia's ISBN validator to announce it as invalid.

86.171.194.212 (talk) 21:19, 20 December 2019 (UTC) James PF

Incorrect title?
Why does this article use "identifier group" when the ISBN article and the official ISBN manual uses the term "registration group"? User's Manual, page 11

Fredlesaltique (talk) 02:15, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

New list?
Are we going to start making a list of 979-8 publishers as we have done with 978-0 and 978-1??

From the See Also section:
 * o List of group-0 ISBN publisher codes
 * o List of group-1 ISBN publisher codes

Just wondering...
 * WesT (talk) 02:08, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Just went looking for the 979 list...still not there WesT (talk) 00:38, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

France
France is not listed as a country with no exclusive registration group, but the 2- prefix seems to be for the French language, so maybe it should, the same way Germany is listed, although the 3- registration group is mostly Germany. --Muhandes (talk) 13:57, 7 November 2023 (UTC)


 * There is no prefix exclusive to "France" in the "978-" range, but "979-10-" prefix is registered to "France". ToraNeko (talk) 07:51, 9 November 2023 (UTC)