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Questions (not edit requests) > Revisions between 1st & 2nd editions, what date?

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Lori | 28 comments Being a librarian can be hard!
I'm trying to update original pub dates on a number of my books (lost in the Amazon updating).
This particular book has a "second edition, with revisions and corrections". Should I use the first edition date? I'm used to new editions with new prefaces and changed bibliographies but I've never seen this before.
Thanks for being so patient with me!


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Cait (tigercait) | 4988 comments Yes, the original publication date should be the earliest publication date for any edition of the book. (We do combine editions of books with "revisions and corrections"; there's eventually a line where a book has changed enough that it's no longer a new edition of an older book but the first edition of a brand new book with almost entirely new material, but if this edition is billing itself as a "second edition" then that's definitely not the case here.)


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