I hope there are book people here who can shed some light on this, but I’ve been buying books through used book sites where you can see all the different editions and covers of a book and many books and authors have an astronomical amount of covers and editions. For examples, I was looking up Salem’s Lot by Stephen King which has 86 different editions, \~60 or so all in English.
So, I get possibly refreshing the cover a few times over the decades, but how do we get to \~60 editions of one book?
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So, let’s say that you’re publishing a book. It does pretty well, and you sell out of your first printing. You COULD just reprint the book exactly as is and sell it again. But why would you do that? Wouldn’t your marketing be better if it’s a new edition, with a foreword from a friend of the author? Maybe a hardback collector’s edition, so that people who really enjoyed the book could purchase it again? There’s not much reason to just reprint it as it was already printed.
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