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Publishing date again
Guess I didn't phrase the question correctly.
A first printing would be described as "first printing, published 1990" A 10th printing would be described as "Tenth printing, published ?" or can one only say "Tenth printing, copyright 1990"? |
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Unless you know the answer, it's the latter. The year of a later printing is
wholly unimportant in determining whether to buy the book or not, although it might be interesting to know. ---Mike http://www.booktouronline.com wrote in message ... Guess I didn't phrase the question correctly. A first printing would be described as "first printing, published 1990" A 10th printing would be described as "Tenth printing, published ?" or can one only say "Tenth printing, copyright 1990"? |
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Francis A. Miniter wrote:
snip 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? |
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"ann greenfield" wrote...
Francis A. Miniter wrote: snip 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. -- Jon Meyers [To reply, lose your way.] |
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"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. -- Jon Meyers [To reply, lose your way.] |
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