Furthermore, if later editions contain authorial revisions, the first is still necessary for identifying and analyzing changes.
If paper editions die, then Bennett's prediction that communications technology would be the death of newspapers will be belatedly proved right.
If recent editions of the MediaGuardian 100 have been dominated by one word – digital – then this year's list is all about the impact of another D-word – downturn.
But it is unclear if Google Editions will be successful in luring consumers of e-books away from established retailers like Amazon, which already offers customers the ability to buy e-books and read them on the Kindle and other devices like the iPad through the Kindle app.
It would make sense if Google Editions were also available in ePub, but the plan to turn regular browsers into eReaders probably needs something else like Google Gears (which has offline capabilities) to make it work.
It should become the authoritative textbook for these tumours, particularly if subsequent editions keep abreast of this rapidly changing field.
Validate every source material even if previous editions were public domain.
They are interested primarily in things surrounding books: their bindings, covers, paper, typefaces, age, condition, whether they are first editions, if they are signed by the author and if he or she is famous rather than the obscure schlub it is the destiny of most writers to remain or become.
Even if "limited edition" is really just code for "no one wants to buy this".
