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Edition pub date can be before first published date
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bluemonkey14Sep 18, 2025
One one edition of a book on my TBR the first published date is 2026 which is correct, but the edition pub date is mistakenly marked as 2025.
Perhaps there should be some validation to stop an edition pub date being before the first published date, as by definition that shouldn't be able to happen?
Or maybe not an outright block but it could pop up and say "are you sure?" before entering conflicting dates?
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For this I think we need to keep in mind of ARCs… I recently ran across this and an ARC was sent out in 2014 but the book wasn’t officially published until 2018…. It’s one of those cases of should the original pub date be 2014 or 2018…
I talk about it in this post: https://roadmap.thestorygraph.com/requests-ideas/posts/arc-tickbox
Good point!