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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Sorry, but your wrong. When edits are made, the edition of the book becomes a different edition. So when using the same edition, ADE page numbering works no problem. When changes are made to a pBook the changes can also effect the page numbers. So it's no different with ADE page numbers and pBook page numbers.
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I am, very seriously, trying to stay away from this discussion, which has convos that aren't productive. HOWEVER, regardless of technical stuff, vis-a-vis ePUB, page numbering, and all that shite, I do want to point out that normally, about this,
@Wolfie is right. When extensive or even moderate edits are made to a book, it
should be a new edition of the book.
Now....we all know that that's changed. That every Tom Dick and Harriet is self-pubbing, and changing their books willy-nilly, either provoked by reader feedback or not. OR, just because they CAN. Alas, the order that
used to control editions is no longer.
Spoiler:
This is one of my freaking hot buttons. The dictatorship of the masses, over the creatives and their products. This mindset that just because a Word file can be edited in five minutes or less, that books should be subject to the same immediacy. It serves NO ONE well, other than the self-appointed "edit police" that roam Amazon like packs of wild dogs, seeking to find mistakes over which they can gloat and then exercise their perceived "power" by reporting them, and getting the Great God Amazon to make the author/publisher dance to the Tune of the Spoiled Rotten Reader.
Now back to the actual topic:
That being the case, the old "rules," the distinction between one edition and the next is lost. Only for those of us who cling to pedantry are the rules still the rules.
So, whilst
Wolfie is right--he's also
wrong, simply because the ability of anyone to exercise control over versioning is long gone. Those of us who care about such things have been overruled by the masses and by word-processing.
SO: we need to find a way--we need a Harry Potteresque magic way--to make annotations work across editions. Otherwise, we are all spinning our wheels here, arguing about minutiae--about which nobody else gives two sh*ts.
Offered solely FWIW.
Hitch