Textbook question

[LuNoTiCK]

I was curious if these books are the same or different, it's a big difference in price.

The book in question is
Weygandt, Kieso, and Kimmel "Managerial Accounting", John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Edition
ISBN 0471-649465
I do not need the Study Guide CD ROM and Student Survey Set.

Now I have seen other editions such as this one.

Managerial Accounting
Item Specifics - Textbooks, Education
Author: Donald E. Kieso, Jerry Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel Edition: 2
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Edition Description: Illustrated
ISBN: 0471413658 Format: Hardcover Publication Year: 2001


In the student bookstore it's $112, the cheapest I found was about $65 online.

The edition is the same, the the authors and the title is the same. The only things that are different are the Publication year, and the ISBN numbers. If anyone knows anything about this please help.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

it is possible to have an edition span multiple years. They may correct typos, etc., but the overall text is the same. When something significant changes, they make a new edition.

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Thanks, I'm going to buy it now.

 

[clamum]

It may be the international edition, which are usually cheaper than the regular one.

 

[LuNoTiCK]

It doesn't seem to be the international edition, but I have no way to tell which edition it is.

Edit: I ended up buying it on ebay.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Some of the books contain engravings made by the devil himself. If you get all the right engravings together and perform the proper incantation you can open a gate to hell and claim your reward from the Dark Prince.

 

[gtsukada]

possibly a softcover vs a hardcover?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
it is possible to have an edition span multiple years. They may correct typos, etc., but the overall text is the same. When something significant changes, they make a new edition.

That killed me one year when I was teaching physics... the changes they made between different printings were the number of significant digits in some of the problems. I was in front of the class saying "NO! There are THREE significant digits... just count them!" 15 kids in the class were dumbfounded by how difficult a concept this was for 3 of the other students... It took a month before we figured it out.

 

[DrPizza]

Oh, I meant to answer your question.... it's possible that one ISBN number is for the book bundled together with the study guide, etc. And the other ISBN is for just the book.

 

[OMG1Penguin]

I bought 2 of my books on half.com, searched by isbn, shipped me different isbn, but books were identical in text from what I have seen so far.

FU publishers, and your damn international versions~