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Originally Posted by Frenzie
If the page numbers are different anyway, then naturally there's no value to trying to make "paper" numbers display at the bottom on a digital screen. But that sounds like a case of a bad paperback and a bad reissue, hardly as a problem with page numbers per se. I have encountered an odd reissue myself,[1] but never a bad paperback. (Assuming we're talking about academic publications.) I've also encountered a few academic EPUB publications that use the paper page in the flow of the text method. I liked those.
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The content is pretty much identical between the three variants other than correcting a couple of typos that the original included on an errata sheet. The paperback has smaller pages and slightly smaller font size so the content takes more pages. The re-issue uses a different body font and slight format changes so it's page count is slightly lower than the original.
I would not refer to any of them as "bad". Smaller pages in the paperback (actually closer to a small trade paperback size) edition are going to require more pages or a significantly smaller body font size to keep the page numbering somewhat consistent. Even the change in the body font in the re-issue was enough to change the total page count.
There have been several rather heated discussions about page numbering in ebooks with some posters wanting a "golden" page numbering system so the page numbers in any edition of either pbooks or ebooks would be consistent.