"
Bookland" is the potentially humorous name for the
Unique Country Code (UCC) prefix allocated in the 1980s for
European Article Number (EAN) identifiers of published
books, regardless of country of origin, so that the EAN
namespace can catalogue books by
ISBN rather than maintaining a redundant parallel numbering system. In other words, Bookland is a fictitious country that exists solely in EAN for the purposes of non-geographically cataloguing books in the otherwise geographically keyed EAN coding system.