Category talk:Articles with invalid ISBNs
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[edit] How ridiculous would it be for Amazon to find DVDs by their ISBNs?
An article was published online by Business 2.0 on 3 April ("Building a Wiki World", featuring an interview with Jimmy Wales) indicating that Amazon was investing in Wikia. If a company related to Wikipedia is now having this wonderful relationship with Amazon, do you think we could persuade them to do something rational, like allow searching for DVDs by their ISBN? Here is the quote:
In the fall, Amazon.com (Charts) also kicked in an undisclosed amount, a deal driven by founder Jeff Bezos's longstanding interest in Wales's work. Bezos has singled out Wikipedia as the site that "cracked the code for user-generated content" and once told Wales that he wished he had designed Amazon's user reviews of books and CDs to be more like collaborative wiki pages.
As discussed elsewhere in this Talk page, DVDs are being published (usually) with ISBNs on the back, and yet Amazon will not find them by ISBN. This seems to force us to use ASINs, which are frowned upon. Who would like to write to Amazon about this issue? EdJohnston 22:20, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Template:ISBN-13 has been proposed for deletion
Mediawiki software already recognizes ISBN-13s and links them to Special:Book sources all by itself. This template, {{ISBN-13}}, looks like it must have been created before Mediawiki support was available. It seems possible that widespread use of the template might make it harder for SmackBot to do its checking, and I joined in the call for its deletion. If you have an opinion, you are welcome to add it to the discussion. EdJohnston 03:21, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 10 or 13
Should we use 10 or 13 number combos now? Bearian (talk) 01:51, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
- Opinions, of course differ. My take is that we should show only the ISBN-13s for any books published after 1 January, 2007, and preferably show only the ISBN-10 for older books. The reason for the apparent nostalgia is that some catalogs and book-ordering systems will find an entry for an ISBN-10 and not for the ISBN-13 of the same book. At least, this was true when the invalid-ISBN project was last active. There is a simple algorithm to convert one style of ISBN into the other (until the moment that the 13s start to be issued out of the unconvertible range), so two ISBNs are not more informative than one. I believe that Rich F. is somewhat more favorable to the ISBN-13s than me, so you might ask him as well. EdJohnston (talk) 04:36, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
