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Okay, (almost) all set:http://www.goodreads.com/work/edition...
The ISBNs and ASIN stay with the first editions, as per policy.
The publication date on the first Kindle edition is given as Dec 1, 2012, probably from confusion with the second edition's publication date. What was the actual publication date for this edition?
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Thank you, Cait! The publication date of the Kindle edition is indeed December 1, 2012. The Kindle version is brand new. It was out for about a month before we changed the cover.
Cait: I just noticed that you have the Kindle version (with the new cover) as a second edition, originally published in 2006. The first Kindle version came out on December 1st, 2012 (with some updated content, a new ISBN, and a new copyright date,) and then we switched to the new cover in January, 2013. So there really is just one Kindle edition, with a publication date of December, 2012. Can you please correct? Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Ah, okay! So there are three editions of the "second edition": two Kindle editions (one with each cover) and a paperback. Does the paperback have a new ISBN? On your website it looked like it was using the same ISBN as the old edition.
Cait:The first and second editions of the paperback share the original ISBN: 978-0-9778599-7-9
The Kindle has an ISBN of 978-0-9778599-8-6
The paper back has two editions because we not only changed the cover, but we also made some changes in the interior (but not enough to warrant a new ISBN).
The Kindle was only out for a month before we changed the cover (the interiors stayed the same). As such, I wouldn't exactly say it has two editions.
The covers changed for both the paperback and Kindle editions in January 2013.
The publication date for the second edition print version is January 21, 2013
The publication date for the Kindle edition is December 1, 2012.
BTW: I have always used January 1, 2007 as the publication date for the first edition. That also matches what Amazon uses.
Thanks again for your help!
Marty Essen
We only track Kindle editions by ASIN, not by ISBN, so the id on the Kindles is actually B00AGLS1BI.Since the paperbacks share an ISBN, the second one has to stay blank in our catalog. The same goes for the Kindle editions sharing an ASIN.
Also, for the purposes of the GR catalog, a new cover constitutes a new edition. (A lot of people remember books visually by their covers, so if there was ever a Kindle edition in print with that cover then we need to keep a record of it.)
I think the publication dates should be updated to the correct dates now -- does this look right?
http://www.goodreads.com/work/edition...
Cait:That looks great. Just one small change: The second edition Kindle should have a publication date of January 18, 2013.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Marty Essen