A list of publisher codes for (978) International Standard Book Numbers with a group code of zero.
Assignment
The group-0 publisher codes are assigned as follows: Publishernumber Itemnumber Group identifier Totalpossiblebooks From To Number ofpossiblepublishercodes Books perpublisher 2 digits 6 digits 20 (0.0035%) 1,000,000 20,000,000 (20%) 3 digits 5 digits 494 (0.085%) 100,000 49,400,000 (49%) 4 digits 4 digits 1,538 (0.27%) 10,000 15,380,000 (15%) 5 digits 3 digits 5,000 (0.86%) 1,000 5,000,000 (5.0%) 6 digits 2 digits 49,999 (8.6%) 100 4,999,900 (5.0%) 7 digits 1 digit 522,010 (90%) 10 5,220,100 (5.2%) Total Possible Group-0 Codes: 579,061 100,000,000
2-digit publisher codes Publisher code Publisher Additional imprints Notes 00 William Collins; HarperCollins Fontana; Flamingo; Flamingo Original; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Voyager; Angelus Media 01 ... not yet assigned 02 Collier Books; Collier Macmillan Alpha; Free Press; Glencoe; McGraw-Hill School Division; Schirmer Books Complete Idiot's Guide series 03 Holt, Rinehart and Winston Dryden Press; Harcourt Brace College; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College; Saunders College now part of Cengage Learning 04 George Allen & Unwin; Unwin Hyman Orion; Unicorn; Unwin Paperbacks now part of HarperCollins 05 Oliver & Boyd was Edinburgh-based; imprint now owned by Pearson Education, code dormant 06 Harper & Row; Collins; HarperCollins, HarperOne, It Books, Zondervan Publishing House Ecco; Harper Perennial; ReganBooks; Smithsonian Books; Rayo; Amistad 07 McGraw Hill … 08 Pergamon; Pergamon Press … now part of Elsevier 09 Century Hutchinson; Geographia (Ltd); Random Century; Random House Arrow; Ebury; Helicon; Legend; Vintage Random House also 1-84605 10 HMSO … official UK government publications 11 HMSO … other official bodies' publications 12 Academic Press Seminar Press now part of Elsevier 13 Prentice Hall; John Wiley & Sons Prentice-Hall International now part of Pearson 14 Penguin Books Arkana; Pelican; Puffin; Viking Penguin; Riverhead Books codes 140, 141 are generated by non-standard hyphenation 15 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Harcourt Brace College; Harvest Books; James H. Silberman; Harcourt Religious Publishers; Harcourt Religion; Mariner Books now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 16 United States Government Publishing Office 17 Thomas Nelson was Glasgow-based; imprint now owned by HarperCollins, code dormant 18 … not yet assigned 19 Oxford University Press Clarendon Press; Oxford Paperbacks
3-digit publisher codes (Note: the status of codes not listed in this table is unclear; please help fill the gaps.)