The Regional ISBN Agency will be responsible for the assignment of the ISBN Registrant Element to eligible publishers with a residence or office in the Caribbean and who are publishing their titles within the Caribbean.
Regional/National Agencies will not assign ISBNs to publishers based outside of the Caribbean Region. All communication will be between the Agency and the Caribbean-based company.
Examples of publishers’ products to which an ISBN shall be assigned are:
- Printed books and pamphlets
- Individual chapters or sections of a publication if these are made available separately
- Braille publications
- Publications which are not intended by the publisher to be regularly updated or continued indefinitely
- Individual articles or issues of a particular continuing resource (but not the continuing resource in its entirety)
- Maps
- Educational/instructional films, videos and transparencies
- Audio books on cassettes or CD or DVD (talking books)
- Electronic publications either on physical carriers (such as machine-readable tapes, diskettes, CD-Roms) or on the Internet (for download or streaming)
- Digitised copies of print monographic publications
- Microform publications
- Educational or instructional software
- Mixed media publications (where the principal constituent is text-based).
- Journals, periodicals, serials, newspapers (Continuing resources ) in their entirety (although single issues or articles where these are made available separately may be assigned ISBN as well) (see http://www.issn.org Abstract entities such as textual works and other abstract creations of intellectual or artistic content (see http://www.istc-international.org)
- Ephemeral printed materials such as advertising matter and the like
- Printed music (see ttp://www.ismn-international.org)
- Music sound recordings
- Art prints and art folders without title page and text
- Personal documents (such as electronic curriculum vitae or personal profile)
- Software that is intended for any purpose other than educational or instructional
- Electronic bulletin boards
- Email and other electronic correspondence
- Greeting cards
- Games.