How do I de-register an ISBN?
I’m not sure if you can de-register it as such, Fuzzy. Ingram for instance (one such wholesaler/DB) gets the ISBN from the publisher, as does Amazon and so on, there is no central authority, each Publisher buys a block of ISBNS to use and then assigns them book by book. In my experience you will have trouble with Amazon (as they have a staff of four very smart dogs and a mute, depressed robot), but you might *might* be able to contact Ingram and Baker&Taylor and the like and tell them the publisher is Kaput and to purge the entry, maybe. What will happen is that your book (when picked up for publication again) will be assigned a new ISBN and this will supercede the old just by virtue of its own existance. The book data well is very poisoned with bad data, and probably always will be. If you tell me what DB’s the info is in, I might be able to tell you more.
