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Citations are more to cover our asses in terms of plagiarism, intellectual property.
The reader being able to find it is their own problem. And finding older editions isn't much of a problem. My stuff is only being read by fellow academics in my field who have access to university libraries that usually have the multiple editions.
And sure if there's a print version AND an e-version that's fine. I'll get the print version and cite it in my work. Readers again can fend for themselves in tracking down the same version I cited.
The issue arises if in the future the e-version is the ONLY option. Until then, I couldn't care less as I'm just 100% sticking with paper versions for all my academic work for now.
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