Ack! Spanish editions

[mstattersall]

"Amber" <ambiree at s...> wrote:
> At my bookstore, we have the spanish version that looks EXACTLY 
like 
> the one my friend brought back, but has a different ISBN (like the 
> social security number for books).  I bought that book too and 
> started flipping through to random pages and comparing them.  They 
> are the same! 
> 
I don't see why they would have different 
> isbns!  They are both trade size paperbacks.  They look exactly the 
> same.

You probably bought an identical book to the one your friend brought 
back, but there must be some difference between them that might not 
be immediately apparent. One might be a later printing in which 
something (probably in the translation) was corrected or updated. 
According to ISBN rules, every time you change a book in any way, you 
must slap a new ISBN on it. Compare the ISBNs on your older copies of 
SS/CoS/PoA with current editions that may look the same on the 
outside.

Ms. Tattersall, who works in the book publishing biz