The one thing I hate when I buy books is when a few months after I got the book, a new edition appears. It happened when I bought the 2nd Edition of Design Resistance Training Programs - Kraemer(A third edition came out shortly after my purchase) and Essentials of Weightlifting and Strength Training by El Hewie (a 2nd edition published not long after the first edition was released).
I am extremely pissed that I was unable to return the books and get credits for the new edition. I think it is an ethical responsibility of ALL book sellers to inform the customers that a certain title that is in their shopping cart or wishlist is expecting a new edition out soon.
Do you guys have inside scoop of new editions of books months before they are released? I'm thinking of putting some money down for Sarhmann's Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes but worry that a new edition might be out soon. The current one is published in 2001, almost 5-6 years ago.
I have nothing to say except I want that book too.
Just wanted to be subscribed to the thread, just incase.
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i always just buy the older edition of books. There is some new information in newer ones, but a lot of times, it's mostly the same info w/ different page numbers. Of course, this doesn't really help in finding out when new editions of books are coming out...
Like my bio book. A new one was like 150 bucks, and i got 1 older edition for 2 or 3 bucks from amazon. Same info in it.
I would definitely go for the older ones if they were sold for 50% or less. The problem is that they cost almost as much as the new ones when I bought them.
I like the newer editions not only because they are almost invariably better organized, more pics, and more colors (which makes learning easier) but also because the newer editions come with DVDs or CD-ROMs. Others have completely new chapters added to them.
This is part of the textbook racket. They're often updated every 4-5 years or so. If they don't do that, some other company will come out with a newer book on the subject, and in academia, the latest info wins out so that's what the profs will use.
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You've had some bad luck but as stated most of the new editions don't contain enough new information in them to get your panties in a bunch. Diagnosis and Treatment is definitely an awesome book, but it's certainly not a light read, heh.
If you're thinking of buying a book that's more than 3-4 years old, go to the publisher's website, click on "contact us," and simply ask someone if there's a new edition in the works.
If there is, you have two strategies: Buy the new edition at full price, or wait for the new edition to come out, then purchase the older edition at a steep discount as used copies become available.
Another strategy, if you don't hear from anybody at the publishing company, is to Google the name of the book with whatever the next edition would be -- if the current edition is the 3rd, Google the book's 4th edition. That's a long shot, but it might turn up an impending update. Publishers will list their books in catalogs a few months in advance of publication. If it's in the catalog, it'll be on the web somewhere.
Final strategy, and this might actually be the easiest:
Just email the authors. Authors, in my experience, are always happy to update readers on their upcoming projects. (I am, anyway ...)
Frustrating thing about buying books. Help!!!
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