------------------------------------------------------------------------ Remembering Aquino Braganca (b. 6 April 1924), who fought for freedom of the former Portuguese colonies in Africa. An online tribute http://aquinobraganca.wordpress.com/ (includes many historical references, some photographs and documents)
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Clearly in the third world no standardization is required. Therefore kitem cholta. One wonders why an author/ress or publisher will not want to sell more books? Strange arguments as always. BTW Dr. Fred one of the best librarians is geographically closer to you. Thanks for the compliments. BC Xac, As you could find out via a little bit of Googling, the ISBN number is not mandatory. It is said to help improve sales in some parts of the globe. But quite a few books are published without ISBN numbers too, specially self-published books