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Comment by mmooss

6 days ago

Minor corrections can be new impressions rather than new editions, I think. On the copyright page, the impression line is the one that looks like this:

   30 29 28 27 26    2 3 4 5

As I understand it: That would be the 2nd impression, printed 2026. It's designed so the publisher can remove the innermost character(s) for each new impression, which I imagine was practical for printing presses - the type is already set, just remove a couple characters. Therefore the next impression this year would have,

   30 29 28 27 26      3 4 5

The 4th impression, next year:

   30 29 28 27           4 5

etc.

Yep - the thing with KDP is that I had to insert that (and would sometimes remember to update it).

I also included a BZR revision number but that’s more difficult to do with git as it doesn’t really have the concept.