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ESBN, WTF?

Category: Publishing , Metadata
Today's Joho the Blog - the blog by David Weinberger - contains a letter from Chris Matthieu, apparently the creator of the ESBN, an identifier for e-books. Matthieu's site is minimal, but in his letter to David he claims to be solving problems with his identifier that an ISBN cannot.

However, the ESBN is not an ISO standard, so its existence makes me wary.

Meanwhile, the goddessly  informs me that all the news is Paris Hilton and Angelina Jolie. Personally, I've been following the JT Leroy story, and the James Frey story. Fake Writer Day, as Gawker declared it. The JT Leroy story is far more interesting - although looking at the pictures, anyone who had doubts as to whether or not that person was a girl is...probably still wondering whether Boy George was gay.

ISBN-13 made last week's Publishers Weekly cover, as well as a more substantial article inside. And yet...there are those still scratching their heads and wondering if this is important. Ducking and covering works, too.
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Posted by Laura Dawson , January 12, 06, 3:04 PM , comments(0) , permalink , Email this post
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