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message 1: by Drace (new)

Drace (dracenines) | 7416 comments Going to try to keep my description of this issue as simple as I can.

There's an upcoming book releasing in the UK, the US, and Australia. The same ISBN number is being used for the releases in all three countries; it is the same edition. However, it is releasing on an entirely different date in each country.

Since I'm planning to start a cleanup thread for this book in the Projects folder in the near future, how should the publication date for this edition be handled? I would guess that the easiest route would be setting the release date to the day it released in its home country, but is there some other way it would be handled (such as creating ACEs for each country with the proper release dates)?

Thanks for any and all help with this.


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Liralen | 8223 comments If it's all the same ISBN and cover, as far as I know there should just be one edition with the earliest publication date. (This is not an uncommon scenario, and I shudder at the thought of how many different identical editions with just the date changed would need to be created otherwise...reminds me of a certain sort of current bot chaos!)


message 3: by Drace (new)

Drace (dracenines) | 7416 comments Liralen wrote: "If it's all the same ISBN and cover, as far as I know there should just be one edition with the earliest publication date. (This is not an uncommon scenario, and I shudder at the thought of how man..."

Thanks for the info, much appreciated.


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