On March 01, 2016, the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam issued the Circular No. 05/2016/TT-BTTTT on management and use of International Standard Books Number.
According to Article 6 of the Circular No. 05/2016/TT-BTTTT of the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam, each ISBN encoded into an EAN-13 barcode must contain:
- Name of publisher;
- Name of book;
- Name of author, translator (for translated book);
- Year of publication;
- Framework, number of pages;
- Genre;
- Summary of contents, theme, topic;
- Number of publication registration certification of Department of Publishing, Printing and Release;
- Number of publication decision of the publisher;
- Number of prints, name and address of printing facility (for printing books);
- Capacity (byte), format, website address or name of supplier (for electronic book);
- Name and address of cooperation partner (if any);
- Selling price (if any).
Apart from the information prescribed above, the publisher may create a separate database to connect the ISBN during the encoding into the barcode. General Director (Director) of publisher shall be answerable to the contents of such database.
View more details at the Circular No. 05/2016/TT-BTTTT of the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam, issued on March 01, 2016.
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