ISBN
for Your Book

• Standard Order: Processing time 23-25 business days after payment.
• Urgent Order: Processing time 7-10 business days after payment.

Business days refer to days that are not weekends, public holidays, or non-working days declared by the President according to legislation.

An ISBN consists of five groups of numbers arranged in the following sequence:

• GS1 (EAN•UCC) prefix for books
• Group (country) identifier (Ukraine’s identifiers: 966 and 617)
• Publisher identifier
• Publication serial identifier
• Check digit

For example: ISBN 978-966-8602-34-4, where:

• 978 – Prefix for books
• 966 – Ukraine’s country identifier
• 8602 – Publisher identifier
• 34 – Publication serial identifier
• 4 – Check digit

Please note that if you want to convert a printed book into an electronic or audiobook format, each format requires a separate ISBN.
For example:

• If you publish your book in print, electronic, and audiobook formats, you will need three separate ISBNs.
• If you publish only in print, you need one ISBN.
• If you publish only in electronic format, you need one ISBN.

Nowhere and in no way. If someone promises you a free ISBN, it means that:

• Either the publisher's director pays for the ISBN from their own pocket and gives it to you as a gift.
• Or (which is possible) the ISBN is simply made up, as it was not issued by the State Scientific Institution "Book Chamber of Ukraine named after Ivan Fedorov." In this case, the ISBN is invalid and will not function as a registration number in the state bibliography.
• Or you created your book on an online platform that assigns its own "ISBN codes", which are not related to the official distributor.

A publisher issuing ISBNs must be registered in the "State Register of Publishers, Manufacturers, and Distributors of Publishing Products." If a publisher is not registered, the ISBN they issue is invalid.
It is impossible to obtain an ISBN if the publishing house or company is not registered in this register.
According to DSTU requirements, the publisher must indicate their registration number on each publication, specifically on the last technical page.

According to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine "On the Procedure for Delivering Mandatory Copies of Documents," the Book Chamber of Ukraine is the recipient of all types of publications in all languages published in Ukraine, including:

• Small print-run editions (up to 100 copies),
• Regulatory and legal acts in the field of standardization, metrology, and certification,
• All periodicals and ongoing publications.

Failure to provide or delaying the mandatory free copy of documents results in a fine for officials and individual entrepreneurs ranging from thirty to fifty times the non-taxable minimum income of citizens (Article 186-7 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses).

An ISBN does not apply to the following types of publications:

• Periodicals and serial publications (journals, newspapers, bulletins, numbered annual collections)
• Printed materials for temporary use (advertising brochures, handouts, event programs, calendar plans, calendars that are not book-type editions, accompanying shipping documents)
• Publications with any restrictive markings
• Single-sheet publications
• Music editions (sheet music)
• Artistic editions
• Cartographic publications (except for atlases)
• Abstracts of dissertations
• Preprints
• Certain regulatory and technical documents (patents, standards, price lists)
• Lecture notes, educational programs, study plans, and card-form publications