Question for the publishing industry geeks out there

[annathepiper]

Okay so yeah, second printing for Faerie Blood! Dara and I want to make this happen!

But as I’ve posted before, before this run goes out, I want to fix the typo in Chapter 20 reported to me by eagle-eyed Kickstarter backer Scott. Here’s the part that stymies Dara and me, though: does fixing a typo, a fix that is literally just removing a single character from a word, justify updating the printing information listed at the beginning of the book, on the copyright page?

Right now that information looks like this:

Second edition 2012
First printing, this edition, 2012
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Printed by Third Place Press
Lake Forest Park, Seattle

And what we don’t know is whether making a change so small would justify changing this to read “Second printing, this edition, 2012″, and/or changing the line of numbers. Sure, this is self-pub and we could do it either way–and it seems weird to me to go to the trouble for removing a single character from the story–but Dara and I are cognizant that there is PROTOCOL HERE DAMMIT and we’re genuinely curious about what the protocol actually is. We’re treating this book like it was professionally produced, we want to damn well follow appropriate protocols!

Can anybody fill us in?

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

If the only thing you're changing is one typo, then it's not a second edition, it's a reprint. That's what the string of numbers is for: you take away the 1, and everyone knows this is the second printing. You don't need that "Second edition" line at all.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

(Oh, hang on, wait - did it have a previous existence in a different edition, and is this print version the second edition? Your metadata is ... really confusing, clearly. But anyway, whatever that mess means, you're just doing a reprint. One altered character does not constitute a new edition. Take away the 1, and you've covered it.)

[annathepiper]

The "Second Edition" line isn't there because of the typo fix, it's there because the novel in general was revised since its original Drollerie Press release. I tightened up a lot of the prose, tweaked some of the background details, and added the Dedication and Author's Notes and Acknowledgements and such, so it's legitimately a second edition.

So the info I quoted is for the first printing of the second edition, which already went out to Kickstarter backers and to others who've bought the book from me directly.

What we're confused about is whether fixing a single typo justifies any changes to that printing data, already in there. :) It sounds like "no"?

[annathepiper]

Hee okay, you dropped this new comment before I answered your first one!

Cool, thank you! :)