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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5831525" data-attributes="member: 40166"><p>Who's going to make them? Seriously, you say "would have to", but Aerie back in the late 1980s-early 1990s, published a number of books under the ISBN 1559029838: Black Beauty, Three Musketeers, A Tale of Two Cities, Wuthering Heights, etc. This was exceptional; they were selling mixed boxes to Wal-Mart, so they didn't have to worry about individual ISBNs.</p><p></p><p>To take another, more minor example: all the errata at <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/errata/gurps/4e/basic-set-characters-2p.html" target="_blank">GURPS Basic Set: Characters, Second Printing Errata</a> has been fixed in the most recent printing of GURPS Basic Set: Characters. But they're still using the ISBN, despite adding sentences and changing whole paragraphs. <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/cyberpunk/" target="_blank">GURPS Cyberpunk</a> is another examples; on top of the errata, the first printings came with the image all the way to the edge of the cover, and later printings switched to having a black border around the edge with GURPS and Steve Jackson Games outside the illustrated area.</p><p></p><p>The point remains: if a company wants to reuse an ISBN, the only issue is they won't be able to distinguish older and newer books under the same ISBN. If the only difference is a new cover and some errata, WotC may not care, Amazon won't, and the FLGS certainly won't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 5831525, member: 40166"] Who's going to make them? Seriously, you say "would have to", but Aerie back in the late 1980s-early 1990s, published a number of books under the ISBN 1559029838: Black Beauty, Three Musketeers, A Tale of Two Cities, Wuthering Heights, etc. This was exceptional; they were selling mixed boxes to Wal-Mart, so they didn't have to worry about individual ISBNs. To take another, more minor example: all the errata at [url=http://www.sjgames.com/errata/gurps/4e/basic-set-characters-2p.html]GURPS Basic Set: Characters, Second Printing Errata[/url] has been fixed in the most recent printing of GURPS Basic Set: Characters. But they're still using the ISBN, despite adding sentences and changing whole paragraphs. [url=http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/cyberpunk/]GURPS Cyberpunk[/url] is another examples; on top of the errata, the first printings came with the image all the way to the edge of the cover, and later printings switched to having a black border around the edge with GURPS and Steve Jackson Games outside the illustrated area. The point remains: if a company wants to reuse an ISBN, the only issue is they won't be able to distinguish older and newer books under the same ISBN. If the only difference is a new cover and some errata, WotC may not care, Amazon won't, and the FLGS certainly won't. [/QUOTE]
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