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As a new librarian I am trying to learn by doing and want to address my own request. But I am stumped by a situation here. Do publishers ever reprint a book under a different imprint?My book in hand matches the records for my library, worldcat and LOC. The edition in the catalog is identical except for publisher imprint and edition info. It states Berkeley instead of the original Obsidian. I am not finding a Berkeley edition anywhere. I looked at the change logs and saw a change on the hardback from New American Library to Berkeley. This isn't a case of imprint versus parent company publisher. They. are all three imprints of Penguin. If publishers don't change the imprint while keeping the same ISBN, I will simply correct the publisher info. But if they do then I need to make an additional edition for Obsidian. If so, which one gets the ISBN attached?
Julie wrote: "As a new librarian I am trying to learn by doing and want to address my own request. But I am stumped by a situation here. Do publishers ever reprint a book under a different imprint?"Yes, this happens. I see this a lot with the older paperbacks in my library. Many imprints started out as independent publishing companies that got acquired by a larger company. It's common for the new publisher to reuse the same ISBN, but not the same imprint name, when it reissues the book. It must be cheaper to reuse ISBNs, or something.
Oops! You already knew this --- and said it in your post. DOH!
The Librarian Manual explains which edition should have the ISBN (maybe in the topic ISBN-10, ISBN-13, and ASINS?) but the manual is unavailable right now. Each topic is blank when I click on it. The Contact Us link doesn't work, either. Oh, Goodreads! Why are you so flaky?
In the meantime, I hope that a more experienced librarian will be able to tell us which edition should own the ISBN.
Thanks for answering.I was confused because I don’t find it mentioned as a Berkeley publication in worldcat or LOC. Now that you have explained that this does happen, I understand that Amazon must have changed it from Obsidian to Berkeley. There were to many entries in the changelog to see that, but I saw that happen in a different book of the series with a cleaner changelog. I saw that it is now listed as Berkeley on other sellers as well. They just don’t change or add the info to worldcat and LOC.
The manual doesn’t address this issue per se, do we treat this like an alternate cover edition? In which case I make an edition for the Obsidian and a note cross referencing the Berkeley? I can do that easily. Just let me know.
Yes, this should be treated like an ARC edition. Experienced librarians recommend adding a librarian note, plus note in the description, that mentions the shared ISBN and links to the other edition. Here's what I did for an edition with the ISBN and the "other" edition. (In this case, it's a hardcover and paperback that share the same ISBN.) I even remembered to add a librarian note for each one!
P.S. The Librarian Manual topics are back! The ARC topic is Adding an alternate cover edition.
Also, I found the Berkley edition of "The Book Stops Here" at Powell's Books, a bookseller that I trust for details of this sort. In my experience as a life-long customer, their ISBN and publisher info has always been extremely accurate. (They have real humans who enter and check the information -- imagine that!)
Yes, that is where I found it too. Thanks for letting me know that you consider it a trusted site. I will make the changes myself soon.
The The Book Stops Here Berkley reprint and the The Book Stops Here original Obsidian editionhave now been edited and are cross referenced.
Thank you for all the advise.
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