tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 28 07:35:56 1997
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Re: comic text
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: comic text
- Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 09:34:12 -0500 (CDT)
: At 07:10 PM 5/27/97 -0700, Voragh wrote:
: >|>Interesting. Could you provide us the complete bibliographic citation
: >|>(author, title, series, imprint, and ISBN if any)?
: >|
: >|"Imprint?" I'm not sure what that means. ISBN -- hmm, is it here?
: >|ghuy'cha', can't seem to find it. DC Comics. Late July 1992.
: >|
: >|qoror
: >
: >A book's "imprint" is simply the publisher's statement usually found on the
: >bottom of the title page or its verso: i.e. the place(s) of publication,
: >publisher's name(s), year of publication and/or copyright (if different).
: >It's all the information a book store would need to special order a
: >particular edition of a title--especially if there's no ISBN available.
:
: Actually, the correct identifier for a magazine or other serial publication
: (like a comic book, I suppose) is the ISSN.
:
: (ISBN = International Standard Book Number)
: (ISSN = International Standard Serials Number)
True, unless the item is actually one of those "graphic novels" which may
not be considered serial in nature by the publisher. Not to mention the fact
that more "civilians" now know what an ISBN is, particularly if they special
order books regularly; it never hurts to ask. From many years experience
working with publications in dozens of languages from all parts of this
planet, some monographs have ISSN's and some serials are even issued with
ISBN's. Go figure.
: -- ter'eS
Voragh
(who's willing to discuss this further off-list)
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