Tannet Group Limited is a diversified international company set up in Hong Kong in spring 1999. With ten years' development, the group has owned more than 38 holding subsidiaries, 88 equity participants, over 3000 cooperators and more than 20000 direct clients around the world. By 2008, the group has established four business systems and laid the foundation for a sustainable development in the next decade. It is no longer just a supplier of all-dimensional solutions to enterprises, but also an investor in industrial development.

The group has two main fields: business service and business investment. Tannet has set up a business service platform, esp.for SMEs, which consists of nine service centres, serving the world of business professionally & reliably, laying a solid foundation for Tannet development in the near future. Also Tannet is seeking win-win cooperation with the cooperators worldwide and welcoming entrepreneurs to join us for mutual benefit.

What is an ISBN?
The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is a 13-digit number that uniquely identifies books and book-like products published internationally. It is a system of numerical identification for books, pamphlets, educational kits, microforms, CD-ROMs and other digital and electronic publications. Assigning a unique number to each published title provides that title with its own, unduplicated, internationally recognized identifier. Publishers, booksellers, libraries and others in the book industry use ISBN in order to expedite the handling and retrieval of publications.

Please note that periodicals, magazines, journals and other types of serial publications are not eligible for ISBN. They are covered by a separate identification system called International Standard Serial Number (ISSN).

Who needs an ISBN?
Publishing houses
The ISBN serves as a unique identifier for
(1).monographic publications, from manuscript through all editorial and manufacture processes until the item is finished
(2).stock control
(3).ordering
(4).accounting
(5).handling or returns
(6).sales data monitoring
(7).right and royalty management



Book traders
The ISBN serves as a unique identifier for
(1).ordering / teleordering
(2).accounting and billing
(3).bibliographic searches
(4).stock control
(5).electronic point-of-sale systems
(6).Books in Print directories

Libraries
The ISBN serves as a unique identifier for
(1).ordering
(2).information retrieval
(3).copy cataloguing
(4).circulation and interlending
(5).national lending rights
(6).the national bibliography

How to get an ISBN?
Presently, more than 160 countries or territories are official ISBN members. If you wish to obtain an ISBN, you should contact the national or regional ISBN agency in your own country. Tannet is an agency with professional advice and a massive international service platform. Please contact Tannet responsible for you. Here you will get further information on the procedure of ISBN assignment.

Contact Us
If you have further queries, don’t hesitate to contact Tannet anytime, anywhere by simply visiting Tannet’s website www.tannet.net.cn, or calling Hong Kong hotline at 852-27826888 or China hotline at 86-755-82143181, or emailing to mailtannet@21cn.com. You are also welcome to talk with Overseas SME Service Centre online by simply joining our MSN: service@tannet.net.

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