You can find more examples in Sections Subscribe to the new APA Style monthly newsletter to get news, updates, and resources delivered directly to your inbox. Which edition of a book should you cite? Cite this. McAdoo, T. APA Style. Often online shops, especially Amazon, will allow for book previews so you can see what the US published edition looks like so you can compare. International edition textbooks may have differences from their US printed counterparts. If the ISBN does not match the required text, check with your professor to learn if the alternative edition will work for their class.
Buying and selling international edition textbooks is safe and easy. Purchasing these editions can save you loads of money for your classes. Reselling them, as determined by the Supap Supreme Court case mentioned above, is legal. The good news is that you are safe to purchase an international edition textbook for your class.
International edition textbooks are cheaper on the front end. Keeping an eye out for these editions can help you save hundreds every semester. However, in the result of the Supap case you should be safe to resell the international edition without much attention.
The benefit of reselling international editions is that you likely purchased the book at a great rate and can resell at the same price or potentially with some profit margin. More vendors are offering the sale and buyback of international editions because of the savings they present for college students.
The list provided earlier in this article of places where you can find international edition textbooks is the same list we recommend when reselling these books.
Of course, we most highly recommend listing your international edition textbook on BookScouter. Several of the vendors listed above are part of our vendor community.
You can review compare their price points at one time. Publishers will often use one of a few methods for showing where that copy falls in the printing history of that book.
A number line might show the printing and sometimes the year of publication. The idea here is an elimination game. In most cases, the first number on that number line indicates what printing that copy was a part of. With each printing, the publisher removes a number from the line of numbers.
A variation on that theme is the letter row. A is the first printing, B is the second Harper and Brothers, one of the many incarnations of the modern day HarperCollins publishing house, used a unique two letter code between that indicated the month and year of publication. The first letter, A-M indicated the month, January-December.
The second letter, M-W, indicated the year, In some cases, a number is moved from the left side of the line to the end of the right side as that printing is exhausted. Another variation is printing number and year of publication.
One side of the number line is the the printing number, the other side is the year of that printing. Numbers and years are removed as the book continues through its course of sales.
If the word First Edition is on the page with a number line, that number line must be complete. Changing or re-organizing on either will sync to the other.
You don't need to buy a Kindle e-ink device, or Kindle tablet. You might want to, at some point. This is DRM lock-in analogous to iTunes et. You can delete material from a device and leave it on the cloud reader. Or, delete from both device and cloud. Some material, here and there, won't show on your e-ink device because it's not compatible. Not an issue for this Kindle user, and a very minor "gotcha".
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