The ISBN 13 already contains the standard EAN 13 check digit, please see our page on EAN check digit calculation. The example ISBN barcode above was created with a SC 6 size and reduced height of 60%. Permitted to reduce the height to some degree, this is known as truncation. It is permitted to vary the size down to 80% and up to 200%. The default, or 100%, size is called SC 2, resulting The module width and height are only allowed to vary within certain limits. ISBN barcode SC sizesĮAN standard SC sizes also apply when ISBNs are encoded in an EAN 13 symbol (see these references for specifications). For instance, both Germany and Austria belong to the language group "3" but have 7% and 10% VAT on books, respectively. Here, the price of a book must include the VAT but the price a customer eventually pays depends the respective country's VAT rate. Note: Encoding a price into the add-on is common practice in the USA but seldom used in Europe. If no price is to be specified with the ISBN, either leave out the add-on entirely ( not recommended) or use the string "90000", a "null"-value which per convention declares that no price is encoded.
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The full string then reads "57499" for US$ 74.99. Following are four digits that encode the actual price, e.g. The first digit of the five digit add-on encodes the currency of the price, e.g. The add-on, also known as "EAN-5", contains anotherįive digits of data and is used to encode the price of a book. ISBN barcodes can carry an add-on barcode, sometimes also called a satellite code. The following sections mainly deal with barcode-related topics, for a more general introduction to ISBNs see the Wikipedia piece on ISBN. To aid data entry in case the barcode scan fails, it is standard practice to add the ISBN above the barcode, the text reading "ISBN", followed by the individual components separated by a hyphen ("-"). * Traditionally called the "Bookland" prefix What barcode type is used for ISBN?ĮAN 13 is used to represent an ISBN in a machine-readable fashion. Item identifier: a variable length number that identifies a certain book Publisher identifier: a variable length number that identifies a publisher in that country or language group Group identifier: a single digit that identifies the country or language group, examples:Ġ or 1: english speaking countries, e.g.GS1 prefix: three digits, usually 978 or 979 * The ISBN itself is composed of the following components: Until 2007 ISBNs were ten digits long (ISBN 10), today they are thirteen digits long (ISBN 13). An ISBN (for International Standard Book Number) uniquely identifies a book or other printed matter.
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