Linking Reused ISBN's that aren't ACE's in the description

[Krazykiwi]

This book Blackout has ISBN 9780062233318

This book A Bloodsmoor Romance has ISBN 9780062269195, however here's what's in the front matter, cut and pasted from the epub edition I own:

A hardcover edition of this book was originally published in 1982 by E. P. Dutton, Inc.
FIRST ECCO PAPERBACK EDITION 2013
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.
ISBN 978-0-06-226919-5
Epub Edition © JULY 2013 ISBN 9780062233318

As you'll note, that Epub ISBN looks very familiar, while the other ISBN is from the paperback edition.

There is also another ebook edition, with ISBN 9780062269201, which I guess I'll just use when I shelve this for myself, but I know a lot of readers are really careful

So the actual point of all this rambling: I put a librarian note on both ends of this, to say the ISBN is (reused? typed? something...) in the Joyce Carol Oates book. It's obviously not an ACE, but should I put a note in the description too? I presume many people who might look this up by ISBN aren't librarians, and would be mystified why they get an entirely different book.

And the other point is to note, for people who seem disbelieving how often ISBN's get reused, this doesn't seem to be an isolated case. I'm guessing once the final manuscript is done, the ebook generation stage doesn't get nearly as many eyes on it double checking last minute things like "add the edition specific ISBN" because this is the third one in a week I've seen with this exact situation, where the epub ISBN is flat out wrong, and clearly either a cut/paste error or a typo.

[Z-squared]

In this instance, it is proper to make an ebook ACE for Bloodsmor and note that the ISBN has been reused in the book description field. Perhaps 'ACE' isn't quite the accurate term here, since these are two distinct books, rather than a re-release of the same book w/ a new cover. Nonetheless, if the ISBN has been reused, the newest edition on Goodreads gets marked like an ACE. Happens all the time. Just look at some of the old Harlequins *shudder*.