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Q&A Figuring out when a book was printed

The FSC (the tree logo on the left) was established in 1993, and the Mix label was developed in 1994 2004, so that physical copy had to have been printed some time after that. It has a website (g...

posted 11y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T03:01:33Z (about 5 years ago)
The FSC (the tree logo on the left) was established in 1993, and the Mix label was developed in 1994 **2004** , so that physical copy had to have been printed some time after that.

It has a website (greenpenguin.co.uk), so you could research when the website was launched. Could be 2003.

Beyond that, yes, it's possible that any given physical copy has been kicking around for two decades. It had a run of so many, some were sold, some were returned to the publisher, and the publisher warehoused them. Your ability to purchase it now is called "long tail retailing." (It describes a graph with a high peak at the beginning, tapering out to a long but low "tail" of small steady sales.)

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2013-08-06T19:56:54Z (over 11 years ago)
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