Hi y'all, I have been trying to submit a book this morning. It's: Joel and the Great Merlini by Eloise Jarvis McGraw The book's copyright page lists two ISBN numbers ISBN 0-394-94193?X ISBN 0-394-94193-4 lib. bdg. (the second number is for library binding) BUT the dual number thing isn't my question.I am entering the first ISBN number on the submit page, and I am getting rejected as having entered an invalid ISBN number. I have cut and pasted it from the scanned book, typed it in by hand, and tried it without the hyphens. No good. Bookshare says it's invalid.
I have looked this book up on www.isbndb.com, and have found that the first number is not listed. This website database has it listed with one digit different. I have double checked the copyright page in the book, and the book is different from the web site.
I guess my question is:What does the bookshare submit page do to validate the ISBN number? Does it look it up somewhere? Or is some kind of checksum used?
Yes, I could take the easy road, and use the second (library binding) ISBN number. But my curiosity has been peaked.
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