Accounting and billing

  Administration of rebinding processes

The ISBN in 

bookshops

 is used for:

  Bibliographic searches

  Tracing addresses of publishers or distributors

  Ordering and reordering processes based on electronic communication systems such

as EDI (electronic data interchange) or via the Internet

  Stock administration 

  Accounting and billing the end consumer

  Electronic point of sale system (EPOS) 

The ISBN in 

libraries

 is used for:

  Information retrieval

  Ordering

  Copy cataloguing 

  Lending statistics

  National lending right

  Inter library loans

12. ISBN and EAN

In 1997 an agreement was concluded between the EAN International (EAN), the Uniform

Code Council (UCC), the International ISBN Agency, and the International ISMN Agency

to foster mutual cooperation. It provides an observer status to respective representatives

at one another's general assemblies, suggests consultations

,

 and regulates the numbering

of non printed book material.

Contact details:

EAN International

Blue Tower 

Avenue Louise 326   Bte 10 

B 1050 Brussels

Belgium

Tel: (+32 2) 788 78 00 

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