A question for those who know far more than I do about citation formats: why do none of them include ISBN numbers? [more inside]
posted by strixus on Nov 9, 2009 - 19 answers

I have a USB hand held barcode scanner and I have an enormous pile of books I need to scan into some sort of usable database for sale online. What software would be most useful and where would you recommend selling them online? I'm using Windows XP Pro.
posted by JFitzpatrick on Dec 2, 2008 - 4 answers

What programming language should a neophyte start with to organize his life? Yes, another one of those questions. But I have two specific tasks that I'd like to accomplish and this makes choosing a language really hard for me. Especially since i'm a complete n00bler. [more inside]
posted by monkishies on Aug 11, 2008 - 35 answers

How to turn a list of ISBNs into a folder of JPEG photos of those book covers? [more inside]
posted by cosmicbandito on Nov 20, 2007 - 8 answers

What websites and databases might an author submit their new book and ISBN number (other than google)?
posted by PoopyDoop on Nov 8, 2007 - 3 answers

I need to know which book-related web service/API is best (most complete archive, most up-to-date, most metadata) for looking up information about books given an ISBN-10 or ISBN-13. [more inside]
posted by basicchannel on Apr 17, 2007 - 10 answers

I'm publishing a book. How do I go about getting Library of Congress information to include behind the title page? [more inside]
posted by RossWhite on Feb 7, 2007 - 7 answers

A book I wrote was going to get published but then the publisher went out of business. Before they went under the publisher assigned my book an ISBN, so the never-published book still appears in various databases. How do I de-register the ISBN and remove it from the web?
posted by Fuzzy Monster on Jul 31, 2006 - 9 answers

I was at a massive used booksale in Phoenix, Arizona today. I saw at least ten 20-something people with Treos and/or PocketPCs with barcode scanners scanning in tons of books.. it looked like they were doing real-time queries to some server getting book values and stuff like that. Who / what / where is going on? Is this a massive business or is this a new fad that young punks to now ... or what?
posted by cowmix on Feb 11, 2006 - 13 answers

Help me find this out-of-print book, The Ponderous Pseudonumer [ISBN 82-994200-4-0], by Dr. Allan Krill, or help me find an equivalent book. [more inside]
posted by sdis on Oct 13, 2005 - 12 answers

BookNerdFilter: Is there a way to tell the printing and edition of a book given just the ISBN? There's abook I'm thinking of ordering, and I'm much more likely to do it if it's a first edition/ printing...
posted by kaibutsu on Mar 12, 2004 - 3 answers