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Book & Author Page Issues > [COMPLETE] Incorrect Publication Date: The Feast of the Goat

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Drace (dracenines) | 7602 comments The first edition hardcover of the English translation of The Feast of the Goat has an incorrect publication date. It's listed as 2021, but according to Amazon (https://a.co/d/heGbrjG), this edition was published November 13, 2001. An archived version of the publisher's website from 2003 (https://web.archive.org/web/200308300...) also confirms a November 2001 release date.


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annob [on hiatus] (annob) | 4048 comments The edition publication date is set to 2021 because it's a newer cover version of the ISBN. An older cover version with date in 2001 can be found here:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...


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Drace (dracenines) | 7602 comments annob wrote: "The edition publication date is set to 2021 because it's a newer cover version of the ISBN. An older cover version with date in 2001 can be found here:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9......"


The edition you linked is an advance reader's copy edition that was never released to the public. The edition I linked in the OP is the first hardcover edition of the book. There has never been an ACE using this specific ISBN number. This is the first, last, and only edition to be published with the ISBN 9780374154769, and it was published in November 2001, not 2021. As such, could you please change it?


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Drace (dracenines) | 7602 comments Giving this a bump. The date still needs to be corrected.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7602 comments Another bump.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7602 comments Bump.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7602 comments Bumping.


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Tal (taliesien) Drace wrote: "Bumping."

Yes you are correct there was no 2021 edition but the ARC edition had the ISBN so a librarian created an ACE to move the ISBN to the "published" version per your request last Oct, here ->https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

When they edited the default date set by the ACE tool (Oct 2023) they simply typo'd the year, 2021 instead 2001. If no one here responds just send your request to support and explain what happened. I've been getting very quick turnaround lately for simple corrections.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7602 comments Will probably do that, thanks for the tip.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7602 comments One final bump before I just go to Goodreads support about correcting the date.


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Tal (taliesien) Drace wrote: "One final bump before I just go to Goodreads support about correcting the date."

GR staff corrected the date on this yesterday. Can be marked complete. :)


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