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How to convert isbn 13 to isbn 10?

What is the difference between the ISBN 10 and ISBN 13 numbers?

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    The short explanation is that up until a few years ago, all books had ISBN 10 -- a 10 digit number given out to uniquely identify each book. But 10 digits can only cover so many books, so they switched to ISBN 13 -- a 13-digit number. There is a way to convert a book's ISBN 10 number to ISBN 13, so that bookstores, libraries, etc which wanted to switch to using ISBN 13 in their systems could handle books that only had a 10-digit ISBN.

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I have no idea, but this article might explain it to you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN

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Isbn 13 is newer and it is compatible with the Europan Article Numbers (EAN). E.g. on http://www.isbn-search.co.uk/ you see that a book has sometimes a isbn 10 and a isbn 13 number.

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