What ISBN and EAN numbers mean

 ISBN

The ISBN number, short for International Standard Book Identifier is the 13 digit book order code which gives the country, publisher, author and title. It also specifies paperback, hardback, or e-book, to be sure you get the right version, up to date or back number edition. It is used when ordering, or when the shop is stock taking, and when tracking. Known as an EAN-13 format. The first two digits are the country.

EAN stands for European Article Number. It is an acronym. Acronym comes from the Greek for top and name, meaning new word formed from initial letters. 

Acronym

Acro, as in acropolis, top of the city. Ak from a previous language means top, tip, sharp point. EAN for European was changed to International Article Number but the term EAN is so well entrenched that it is still used. 

Nym means name. Put the two together and you get acronym.

Bar Codes & Prices

The bar code 9000 after the ISBN means there is no set price for the book. So as inflation increases, and so do printing costs and packaging, the price of the book goes up. 

Amazon or Kindle refused to accept a book with a marked price, because customers get irate at being charged more when the original typesetting of the first edition included the old price.

When I take books to events I may have two copies of the book. One has the cheaper price because I bought it last year.  After I have sold that one, the other book has the higher price because I ordered it in the current year and paid more postage. 

A separate issue is whether to pay in the local currency, the currency of the card (which may be where the card is registered, where you used to live, rather than were you are now, if you are an expat with two homes.

If the bank is charging you to change currency, you are better off using the home currency.

 

My Books By Angela Lansbury

 Benjamin Disraeli said, When I want to read a book, I write one.

When I travel, I take with me my latest book.

ISBN

The ISBN number, short for International Standard Book Identifier is the 13 digit book order code which gives the country, publisher, author and title. It also specifies paperback, hardback, or e-book, to be sure you get the right version, up to date or back number edition.

EAN stands for European Article Number. It is an acronym. 

The bar code 9000 after the ISBN means there is no set price for the book. 

 

POETRY & WRITING POETRY 

Angela’s Alarming Animals 

Poetry Pets & Pests 

 A-Z giving each animal’s characteristics such as diet. 

ISBN 978-1-291-49395-5

Lulu ID 13987252

Poetry Workshop Workbook  

Write new poems! Lulu ID 2228624 

Seriously Funny Poetry 

We Saw A Dinosaur  

For children age 4-8. Large pages. Illustrated. ISBN 978-1-291-49752-6 

ETIQUETTE 

Etiquette For Every Occasion 

ISBN 071344710X

How To be A Bridesmaid.  

This book was used for a demo on How to use Singapore Library presented to the American Women’s Association. 

Wedding Etiquette 

SPEECHES 

How to Be The Best Man  

Ward Lock 1st edition, later Cassell. Reprinted many times. 

Wedding Speeches & Toasts 

QUOTATIONS 

Quick Quotations for Successful Speeches.  

A to Z by subject matter. ISBN 978-1-4461-9007-4 

You can take a quick look at the contents and a quotation on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quick-Quotations-Angela-Lansbury/dp/1291599193

Who Said What When 

Quotations for every day of the year. 

ISBN 978-1-291-94876-9

TRAVEL 

Enquire Within Upon Travel & Holidays 

ISBN 0 214  20281 X

Jewish Travel Tales & Guidebook  

Anne Frank, Auschwitz, Houdini, Marilyn Monroe, Levi jeans, Singer sewing, many more stories and sightseeing 

Birthplaces, success stories, museums, cemeteries, entrepreneurs, singers and stars. 

Unforgettable British Weekends 

Weekend Breaks. Burgh island and many more.  

FICTION 

Larry The Talking Labrador, Cathy the Cat And The Escaped Lions  

A schoolgirl’s dictatorial dog drags her around a zoo,  interviewing vegetarian wildlife to help her homework project, pursued by an irate, carnivorous, escaped lion. 

ISBN 978-1-326-32169-7

90000

The Tailor and The Spy  ISBN 978-1-326-73649

Humorous historical escape and emigration, inspired by Angela’s ancestor, great-grandfather, reluctantly leaving Lviv in his homeland Ukraine, chasing love, via London’s chaotic, vibrant East End in the 1880s. 

HUMOROUS MEMOIR  

Dating Online  Did I Really Write That

 ISBN 978-1-84799-934-4 9000

Lulu ID 1040874

Embarrassing Moments  

(Book 1) 2025. ISBN 9798296557582 . Travel and Teaching in Singapore, UK, USA. 

WRITING & LANGUAGE 

Improve your English 

Examples, instructions and an A-Z of adjectives, nouns and names, so you can easily add alliteration, assonance and rhyme. Paperback ISBN 978-1-4717-9749-1 

ANTHOLOGIES 

Contributor of short stories, poems and articles to numerous anthologies including Carolyn Street’s series And Us  –  

Writing and Us  

Grief and Us  compiled by Carolyn Street 2023 

ISBN 978-981-18-6532-9 

Addictions and Us Compiled by Carolyn Street 2023  ISBN 978 981-189 0383 

Please share links to your favourite poems on my blog posts. I have more blogs on travel, and fashion.  

Also see my latest book, the amusing Embarrassing Moments on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk or Lulu.com . I have about nineteen other books on these websites.  

POETRY 

I have poems in books 

Seriously Funny Poems by Angela Lansbury 

Lulu ID 931758

Writing Poetry For Fun 

Poetry Workshop Workbook 

We Saw A Dinosaur (illustrated large book with one long poem for children) 

In the And Us series of anthologies by Carolyn Street I have some poems. 

In Addictions & Us I have a poem entitled Hoarding Plane Traveller. and a chapter 11 Confessions of a Hoarder, Keeping Order, and chapter 12 Fighting Fat, Getting Fit - Addicted to Eating Potatoes, Chocolates and Freebies.  

In Grief and Us I wrote Chapter 5 Coping with Bereavement and Depression, no humorous poems in that book, although I recommend reading humorous poetry and watching humorous films or videos.

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