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The publisher Random House made incorrect changes to the edition of Slaughterhouse-Five with the ISBN 9780385312080. This ISBN was previously used for the 25th Anniversary Edition of the book, then later received an ACE that is the 50th Anniversary Edition. Rather than creating a new ACE for the 50th Anniversary edition, Random House changed the cover art and details for the 25th anniversary edition in violation of Goodreads policy. Could somebody please undo their changes? If further information on how the edition should look is required, please let me know and I'll run down the information (Title, Author, ISBNs, all that stuff) in a reply.

Librarians: please let me know if you want to handle the proper creation of an ACE for the 50th Anniversary Edition and I'll add the details for that as well.

Bumping.

Bump.

I absolutely hate it when publishers with librarian status do this. Anytime I see it I flag it or write in, but it doesn't seem to matter.

If you will add the details I will revert their changes and make an ACE.

Emily wrote: "I absolutely hate it when publishers with librarian status do this. Anytime I see it I flag it or write in, but it doesn't seem to matter.

If you will add the details I will revert their changes ..."

Details for how the 25th Anniversary Edition should look:

TITLE: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade
AUTHOR: Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN-10: 0385312083
ISBN-13: 9780385312080
ASIN: 0385312083
PUBLISHER: Delacorte Press
DATE PUBLISHED: February 1, 1994
NUMBER OF PAGES: WorldCat lists 220: https://search.worldcat.org/title/109...
FORMAT: Hardcover
EDITION: 25th Anniversary Edition
DESCRIPTION: There’s no description anywhere on the book (the text on the front cover continues onto the jacket, and it’s a description of Vonnegut himself), so I’m taking the description from an archived version of the publisher site (https://web.archive.org/web/201604011...). You might want to also include a link to the ACE in the description as well.

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world’s great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: Doesn’t need to be changed.

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50th Anniversary ACE:

TITLE: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade
AUTHOR: Kurt Vonnegut
FOREWORD: Kevin Powers
ISBN-10: 0385312083
ISBN-13: 9780385312080
ASIN: 0385312083
PUBLISHER: Modern Library
DATE PUBLISHED: 2019 (can’t provide a specific month or day)
NUMBER OF PAGES: WorldCat lists 220: https://search.worldcat.org/title/109...
FORMAT: Hardcover
EDITION: 50th Anniversary Edition
DESCRIPTION:

[You may want to include a note that this ISBN was previously used for the 25th Anniversary Edition and link back to it.]

A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds

Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”

An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.”

More than fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut’s portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://images1.penguinrandomhouse.co... // https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...

Thank you for providing these details.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Unfortunately it is no longer possible to include links in descriptions even to Goodreads pages, unless someone else knows something I don't. I used to always include them but it does not work now.

I have made notes to say the ISBN was used on the other edition.

Thanks for your help!