Data(3)

NAME
Business::ISBN::Data - data pack for Business::ISBN

SYNOPSIS
see Business::ISBN

DESCRIPTION
This data is current as of November 2004. At that time, the publisher codes 9990000-9999999 or 999000-999999 had not been fixed, although they had been proposed. I do not include them in the data.

Business::ISBN uses this "data pack" to do its work. You can update Business::ISBN::Data independently of the main module as the various ISBN organizations assign new publisher codes. The ISBN agency lists these data at http://www.isbn-international.org/en/identifiers.html . The distribution should include the kludegy script I used to extract the data and format the data structure.

Note, that as a historical artifact, some countries are actaully language areas. For instance, country code 2 is "French", and includes several French-speaking countries.

Simply install this module over the previous version. The module is a Perl data structure, so you can install it with CPAN.pm, or simply copy it to the right location.

Older versions of this module did not declare a version, and will work with whatever version of Business::ISBN you have despite anything the Makefile.PL might say.

If you make updates, please send them to me so I can include them in future releases.

  Utility functions

SOURCE AVAILABILITY
This source is part of a SourceForge project which always has the latest sources in CVS, as well as all of the previous releases.

        http://sourceforge.net/projects/perl-isbn/

If, for some reason, I disappear from the world, one of the other members of the project can shepherd this module appropriately.

AUTHOR
brian d foy, "<bdfoy@cpan.org>"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2002-2007, brian d foy, All Rights Reserved.

You may redistribute this under the same terms as Perl itself.