"Jon Meyers" wrote...
"ann greenfield" wrote...
Francis A. Miniter wrote:

Random House will use "First Edition" instead of the number 1, so that
First Edition
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
means a first edition.

I read recently that Random House has begun using a number line
beginning with 1...can anyone verify? And if correct, anyone know the
exact date it started?

There was a discussion about this here last October, when someone spotted
one RH fiction title--Peter Straub's latest, "Lost Boy, Lost Girl"
(released
October 7, 2003)--that used a 1 number line. I don't know of any other
fiction of which this is true, but that doesn't mean they aren't out
there.
RH has used 1 number lines on many (not all) nonfiction books, and
continues
to do so.

Nothing beats a little research, so I went to a local store and looked at
every RH & Villard fiction title I could find (which didn't take as long as
you might think; most fiction from the RH conglomerate is issued by other
imprints, such as Knopf & Pantheon). The results are pretty conclusive:
Everything published through September 2003 uses the old system; everything
published from October onward has a 1 in the number line. Looks like the
change has been made.


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