Publisher's Administration

Registrants are responsible for assigning publication elements to the individual items they publish and for ensuring the application of pertinent regulations. They can apply for and receive a registrant element from RRRNA via online ISBN portal.

The RRRNA will determine the range of publication elements that will be available to the registrant. The range assigned will be determined based on current and anticipated future publication output and is directly related to the length of the registrant element allocated. The registrant should make available all the possible information regarding all the available backlist publications to RRRNA and also advise on the present and future publications, in order to facilitate assignment of a suitably sized registrant element. RRRNA can initially assign a smaller range of numbers than that requested if they are uncertain about the number of likely publications.

The registrant must supply the RRRNA (or its designated local bibliographic agency) with a specified amount of metadata about the publication to which the ISBN is assigned. The specifications concerning the type and format of the metadata are established by the International ISBN Agency in cooperation with RRRNA.

Further detail may be found in the user manual at https://isbnnew.inflibnet.ac.in/usermanual.pdf

Practical Uses of ISBN

The ISBN is used in all branches of the book sector.

ISBN in publishing houses is used for:

• identifying firm publication projects from the manuscript to the printer
• title identification in publishers' catalogues and advertisements
• listing in printed directories, electronic directories and in Internet-sites
• stock control
• copyright management
• management of royalties
• processing of orders
• accounting and billing
• monitoring sales data
• producing statistics
• handling of returns

ISBN in Books in Print services, distribution centres, and wholesalers is used for:

• building bibliographic databases for the book trade like Books in Print
• building databases of titles in stock
• ordering services based on electronic communication systems like EDI (electronic data interchange) or via the Internet
• stock control
• monitoring internal logistic processes
• accounting and billing
• producing sales data
• returns administration
• producing subject lists and catalogues

ISBN in centralized service organisations for libraries (producing ready-to-borrow copies) is used for:

• ordering at the publishers or wholesalers
• processing orders from libraries
• stock control
• monitoring internal logistic processes
• accounting and billing
• administration of rebinding processes

ISBN in bookshops is used for:

• bibliographic searches
• tracing addresses
• ordering and re-ordering processes based on electronic communication systems like EDI (electronic data interchange) or via the Internet
• stock administration
• accounting and billing the end consumer
• electronic point-of-sale system (EPOS)

ISBN in libraries is used for:

• ordering
• copy-cataloguing
• lending statistics
• national lending right
• interlending
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