Так вот откуда появились ISBN…

 In the second of our series of articles about the International Standard Book Number system, Richard Charkin talks to David Whitaker, who chaired the panel which planned the Standard Book Number system, which was introduced in the UK in 1967 and which subsequently evolved into the ISBN sys

Source: International Publishers Association — «It was an idea whose time had come.» David Whitaker on the birth of ISBN