In books, is there a possibility to have two books with the same ISBN?

In books, is there a possibility to have two books with the same ISBN?|||short answer: no





long answer: The International Standard Book Number, or ISBN, is a unique, numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin,[2] for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966.|||No you can't

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|||Technically, no.





However, I have two different Thomas the Tank Engine books with the same ISBN number. No idea how it happened - but it made listing them on Amazon effectively impossible :)|||What Kathy L said.