[Genealib] Re: ...and the RedBook

[joe]

Hello Susan,
Ancestry is releasing a new third edition of The Source. Could there 
maybe have been a mixup in the information you received?

http://shops.ancestry.com/product.asp?productid=4327

Regards,
Joe Beine
Denver, CO

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"Susan Scouras" <Susan.Scouras at wvculture.org>  wrote:

> Regarding the RedBook, I received an Ancestry Product Watch this 
> morning
> tooting the "new" and "updated" 3rd edition of the RedBook.  As far as 
> I
> can tell this is the exact same text that has been sold since 2004.  We
> have a staff member who takes great pride in regularly purchasing and
> then donating to the Archives Library new editions of several standard
> reference books as they are published.  He bought this one in 2004,
> which was great, but he bought it again in 2005 thinking it was "new."
> He also subscribes to Ancestry Product Watch, and I just now had to
> convince him that he didn't need to buy it again today, that it was the
> same thing he already gave us. In addition to this staff member, I have
> had patrons donate "new" editions of works that actually were reprints
> (sometimes with different covers from the first printing), without even
> a new preface or illustrations to differentiate the "new" from the
> "old."  I urge everyone to check with me first, but of course they
> seldom do so.
>
> Once past the initial release and the first year of sales, I think it 
> is
> fine to advertise a product as the "most recent edition" and give the
> copyright date of the revision, but I think it is misleading to use the
> terms such as "new" and "most up to date," etc., without any dates, 
> past
> that point of time.  Am I being too picky?
>
>
> Susan Scouras
> Librarian
> WV Archives and History Library
> The Cultural Center
> 1900 Kanawha Blvd. East
> Charleston, WV  25305-0300
> (304) 558-0230, Ext. 742