Product Label - Nonbooks

Notes

The product label is required for cartons containing only a single item. No product label is required for mixed item cartons, when mixed items are permitted by the Barnes & Noble purchase order.

Zone 1 – Mandatory for Non-Book Product Received at Barnes & Noble

For non-book products, the human readable information in Zone 1 is to include the title, vendor, and origin. Depending on the nature of a particular item, Barnes & Noble product managers may require other information in addition to that shown in the example.

Zone 2 – Optional for Non-Book Product Received at Barnes & Noble

Zone 2 may be used for information needed by the vendor or for information agreed to jointly by the vendor and the Barnes & Noble product manager.

Zone 3 – Mandatory for Non-Book Product Received at Barnes & Noble

The information in Zone 3 includes carton quantity, carton weight, UPC/EAN, and suggested unit price. As shown in the example layout above, Barnes & Noble supports the practice of identifying non-book products with EAN/UPC rather than ISBN. However, in some cases a non-book product closely associated with a book is assigned an ISBN. If that is the case, the ISBN is to be encoded as shown for the book product label.

Inner Carton Marking