Sunday, February 13, 2005

Reprints of Low Price Edition (LPE) of Books

One of the biggest disadvantages of Low Price Editions of books is that reprints are merely "reprints". They do not fix any errata as the original editions do. The LPE is only as good as the reprint that the publisher buys from the parent company and does not update it until a new edition is out.

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