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The Wishsong Of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy #3) by Terry Brooks
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Since this is for the Little Brown books edition, I will be leaving the Publisher alone. It was published by both publishers with the same ISBN. Since Orbit is an Imprint of Little Brown books, there is no reason to change that.Out of curiosity before changing the page numbers are there just a bunch of blank pages after 566? Was checking because WorldCat showed the 576 page count.
Hi Philip. Just a blank page then an advert page after 566. Most sources suggest 576, apart from this one.http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?3...
My copy is a reprint but I can't see why it would lose ten pages?
I can only find one edition with this ISBN. The Orbit example printed in 2006. As you say Orbit is an Imprint of Little Brown books, however all Orbit books I've found in Sci -Fi on GR are listed as such. I'm sure there were not two separate editions with the same ISBN, although there are a lot of Orbit reprints.
If GR wants to take this route then every Orbit Book since 1992 is an imprint of Little Brown books, which in turn was itself a sub-imprint of Time Warner Book until 2006, then became a sub-imprint of Hachette Book Group.
Imprints are preferred so I have edited it to show as Orbit.
Scott wrote: "Imprints are preferred so I have edited it to show as Orbit."I have never seen something where it was stated that the imprint was preferred over the primary publisher, when both have published the book. Now when it was published only as an imprint and not under the primary I have seen where you are supposed to use the imprint.
In this circumstance it is a strange one, because neither is technically more specific, because it has been released under both separately. I have understood the policy that way, but you can change it if you want. I just do not like to change an edition to a totally different edition, which is what you did by changing the publisher and page count, in this specific instance.
From the librarian manual:publisher
In this field, list your book’s publisher, such as Bantam, Jove, Berkley, etc. Be sure to properly spell, punctuate, and capitalize the publisher name - it is not necessary to use ALL CAPS for the publisher name even if that is the way it is written on the spine. Capitalizing the first letter is best. When there is a choice between a publisher and an imprint, the general rule is to choose the most specific rather than more general.
Scott wrote: "From the librarian manual:publisher
In this field, list your book’s publisher, such as Bantam, Jove, Berkley, etc. Be sure to properly spell, punctuate, and capitalize the publisher name - it i..."
I know what that says. like I said do what you want, but I do not like to change an edition to a different edition, and since page count and publisher are different I would consider that a different edition. Yes it was published as an imprint also, but obviously a significant page count difference between the 2 editions.
Page count is 566 (followed with a one page advert)
Publisher is Orbit
Cheers
Steve