How do you find a book's ISBN number?

Question

I have an older book that does not show an ISBN number. I need it to list the book for sale.

Answer 1

If it is old enough, it won't have an ISBN number since the ISBN system was created in the United Kingdom in 1966 by the booksellers and stationers W H Smith and originally called Standard Book Numbering or SBN (still used in 1974). It was adopted as international standard ISO 2108 in 1970.
If it was published after 1970, you might find the ISBN checking the Library of Congress catalog http://catalog.loc.gov/webvoy.htm

Answer 2

If it doesn't have an ISBN number, it must be quite old! Check the fly page and see if there is an equivalent listing. Or check your library catalogue (you can usually do this on-line) and see if it has been issued an ISBN number. Sometimes a reprint of an old book will be given a number if the original doesn't have one.

Answer 3

Older books don't carry ISBNs and are often hard to sell. List it by title instead, if you can.

Answer 4

try amazon--they always have the isbn number.
It should be listed on the page that also gives the copyright information.

Answer 5

You can always look a book up on a site, like alibris.com, that will list books and their ISBN's. Make sure you have the publication year. You can also go to your local bookstore and ask them to look it up in Books In Print.

Answer 6

Look it up on amazon.com, if they have it the ISBN will be shown there.

good luck!

Answer 7

it's where the barcode on the back is
be sure to put in all zeros before or after the long list of numbers

Answer 8

It's the third page or next page after title page.

Answer 9

It should be on the back where it shows the price and the bar code. If its not there, I'm sorry, I dont know what to tell you.

Answer 10

try searching for the book on amazon.com it should be listed on there