viernes, 20 de junio de 2008

ISBN's en la era de los libros digitales


En este aspecto, para elaborar el ISBN (13digitos) se pasa por una serie de intermediarios como los escritores y los editores,

Para evitar este conflicto, se plantea utilizar el SKU

We are rapidly jerking forwards into a near term future where ISBNs will be assigned for derivative digital book products by intermediaries, not publishers. As an astute colleague observed in New York, the ISBN becomes a product SKU.

There are many disadvantages in this; one is that it will become increasingly difficult to find the “book” in the tangled weave of various digital instantiations. Perhaps no longer will we be able
to ask how many copies did EduPunk 2020 sell.

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