Good points, Jim. In validating, I've come across titles with the wrong author and with a copyright attributed to the publisher rather than the author. But what do you mean by " More future functionality is going > to depend heavily on > ISBN number: " What sort of functionality, and what about books that don't have ISBN numbers? Just curious. Cindy --- Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >As a practical matter, if a book has an ISBN, there > likely is no reason > to > >check further. > > Actually, you should check further for a couple of > reasons: > > 1. Title/author check. We've had books submitted > with the wrong title, > and had authors complain that they had a book they > didn't write. > 2. ISBN check. More future functionality is going > to depend heavily on > ISBN number: it's worth checking it. > > That's in addition to our copyright compliance > requirement, which is > written into Chafee. > > Jim Fruchterman > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com