International ISBN Agency

ISBN Users' Manual

The ISBN Users' Manual is available as a pdf document. You can read the ISBN Users' Manual off- and online. To read it offline download the PDF version and save it to your computer. The latest version of the ISBN Users' Manual in English was issued in January 2012.

Last update: 2012

The current ISBN Users' Manual has now been translated into several other languages, which are all available in pdf format. To download a pdf version of the Users' Manual please click on the relevant language:

• Arabic
• Chinese (Mandarin)
• Dutch
• Estonian
• French
  
• German
• Hungarian
• Portuguese
  
• Serbian
• Spanish

Last update: 2013

It is also possible to download an issue of the Users' Manual translated into Danish by visiting the website of the Denmark ISBN Agency. Please note that this translation is based on the fifth edition of the Users' Manual from 2005, but it has been updated to include the more detailed rules about assignments to digital publications which form part of the sixth edition.

Last update: 2012