[Foundation-l] How many books are there in the world?

Fri Aug 6 02:38:54 UTC 2010

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Tracy Poff <tracy.poff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:18 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> in particular, I didn't know that multiple books (entirely unrelated
>>> books) have shared ISBNs. So, if nothing else, it might impact...
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ISBN
>>
>> AFAIK, this is a fairly uncommon problem; I've never run across it in
>> 6+ years of working with lots of books & library catalogs every day.
>
> It varies by publisher--for example, in my experience, Harlequin (a
> publisher of romance novels) seems to have used all of its ISBNs *at
> least* twice. It's a real problem, if you expect an ISBN to be a
> unique ID for a book, and worse if you wanted to it be unique to
> edition or so on. Well, it's a minor issue from out point of view, I
> guess. How would Mediawiki scale to 130 million articles? Gotta cover
> everything...

The number of notable subjects covered in all those books is much much
greater than  >> 130 million.

Thanks,
Pharos

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