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☕ Lachgas ♿
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May 14, 2017 08:22AM
Totally off topic but: you could make so much research during this quite entertaining race? ;-)
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Page count from amazon isn't quite accurate on amazon on print books. WorldCat is the more precise source mostly, their system is a more GR LIKE one on how to count the pages.
At the risk of stating the obvious, page count from book-in-hand is the most reliable source (except for Kindle where Amazon is). As long as the existing page count is from a different source (Amazon, worldcat, publisher) we will prefer book-in-hand.The problem is what to do where the page count is already book-in-hand, i.e. same ISBN was used for two publications. If the cover is even slightly different, we will create an alternate cover edition. Otherwise, I was told not to create a new edition just for the sake of a (different publication with a) different page count. I am not aware of any solution to this.
An interesting absurd is that if there is no cover, we will create an edition per publication date.
