Different versions of books: EDITION and PRINTING

[Phil Boswell]

No: HPFGUIDX 103871

People are getting confused over which version of a given book they
have. It appears that some are unaware that each EDITION may have many
PRINTINGs (there's probably a technically better word to use for this,
but I'm going for clarity not nit-picking technical accuracy :-).

Look at the page just before the titles, where all the copyright stuff
can be found. You'll probably find details of who printed your book,
and the ISBN. There will also be a row of numbers.

The lowest number in that row is the PRINTING number within the given
edition.

Sometimes minor corrections are made between PRINTINGs which are not
sufficient to cause it to be a new EDITION.

Think of it like a bug-fix in software. You have Major and Minor
versions: EDITIONs and PRINTINGs.

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil