The new ISBN 13-digit numbers and the history of ISBN

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I was reading up on the introduction of the new 13-digit ISBN numbers and I was curious about its history.

Here are some articles which comment on the history of ISBN and its early development by W. H. Smith in 1965.

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