At 12:09 AM 06/15/2000 -0800, William Overington wrote:
>I am unsure what happens to an
>International Standard Book Number when a second, altered or corrected,
>edition of a book is published, whether a new ISBN is assigned to the new
>edition or whether the old ISBN is recycled
It is a new book and a new number is assigned. A price change on the book
(even if it is just a new printing not a new edition) normally gets a new
number since the number keys back to the book and the publisher must track
the $4.95 copies separately from the $5.95 ones. A new printing without a
new price keeps the same ISBN. In some cases when a book is printed with
multiple covers, each cover sometimes gets its own ISBN number.
