Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

This lists a publication date of April 13th, 2003 as a first published date. I don't believe it was published before this year.

It wasn't really fixed. In these cases there are very often one or more editions with a wrong date. If those editions are not corrected changing the original publication date is not useful, because if the system finds a edition with a date before the original date it changes the date again. So you need first to edit the edition with the wrong date.

I fixed this book.

Here is another one. The publication date on the paperback is taking over as the first published date even though I don't believe it is out yetThe Twelve Clues of Christmas