January 2011
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Bookland (imaginary place)
Apparently, when the international barcode system for all products (EAN) was being developed, they wanted to make it backwards compatible with the old book barcodes (ISBN). So they created an imaginary country called Bookland, so that books could be identified by ISBN without regard to their country of origin.
As if that weren’t enough, sheet music publishers had their own old barcode...
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