The upper part of the copyright page cip is usually the time when ISBN is issued. The specific printing time is generally flexible, and some publishers or companies will have the phenomenon you mentioned. The main purpose is to extend the sales cycle of books. Because books are updated too quickly now, they are not bestsellers, generally more than one year, and new book bookstores and second-channel bookstores are reluctant to sell them on shelves.

For example, Zhang (Volume 1) has four volumes.

Author: Bear Series Name: Publisher: Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House ISBN:7535426794 Publication date: 2003- 12- 1 Version: 1 Impression: 1 Page: 465 words:14/.

The publication date of this book is 65438+February 2003 1.

Printing is the first time (there can be a "second time" in the future and so on. ).

Shift is the first edition of the book (you can also modify the "reprint" later).