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What is the GTIN-13 (previously known as EAN/UCC-13)?
- International Article Number (in its thirteen-digit form)
- Used internationally to identify single units of products
- Hyphenation: Never hyphenated
- Used on all types of products (not just books)
- Sunrise 2005 encouraged all companies in the North American supply chain to ensure that their systems (including point-of-sale systems) could read and store this number as a product identifier
- Includes both the Bookland EAN/UCC-13 numbers and identifiers in ranges issued by the local GS1 agency
- Numerically equivalent to the ISBN-13 for products numbered with ISBNs
- Bar coding: Uses a standard EAN/UCC-13 bar code (with or without five-digit price add-on)
- May be easily converted to a GTIN-14 by prefixing a leading numeral and recalculating the check digit
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