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International ISBN Annual Report Meeting was revealed in New York (USA) on September 11, 2013. International Agency ISBN book numbers is engaged in the matters of identification of publications based on the application of the International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) and establishes the order of use, structure, composition, form of writing, the location in publications, procedure of assignment of ISBN. International standard book number (ISBN) was developed on the basis of the system of numbering books, introduced in 1967 in the UK by J. Whitaker & Sons, Ltd. and in 1968 in the U.S. by R.R. Bowker.
International Agency for assigned ISBN book numbers engaged in coordination and standardization of the use of the ISBN for the unique identification of the names of the books or publications belonging to one publisher, and this number is assigned only to this edition. Currently member of the international ISBN Agency are about 200 States, regional agencies, and major international publishers.