Y2K all over again
An article on silicon.com is warning that the eventual implementation of the 13-digit ISBN may wreak havoc on the computer systems of libraries and the bookselling and publishing industries. Andy McCue writes that the ISBN Agency is warning any companies connected to the book industry to make sure that their data management systems can handle the longer ISBN numbers well ahead of the 2007 deadline. One manager from Oxford University Press is quoted as saying that the new numbers will cost his company “630 man-days of work to change the SAP system and another 200 man-days of work for other ancillary systems.”
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