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Re: Final version is...?
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Posted: Nov 19, 2008 9:35 AM
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The version number is just there to keep track of exactly which version of the book you're looking at. The way you can know it is a completed book is that it says "First Edition" not "PrePrint Edition" on the copyright page. In the PDF filename, there's a 1Ed, which means first edition.
Whenever we make any minor changes, such as to fix typos, and do a new release, we'll bump up the version number. The initial batch of paper books are at Version 5, for example. The reason the eBook is Version 6 is that we changed a handful of res10, res11, res12, etc., Scala interpreter output numbers in a few places, so that they matched what went into the code example zip file. Those are the only changes, very minor, between the initial print run of the First Edition paper book and the initial First Edition eBook, but it was enough to cause us to increment the version number.
We'll be deploying an errata page soon, and from time to time expect we'll need to do reprints (as we get low on copies of the paper book). For each reprint we may take the opportunity to fix typos that were reported via the errata app, and those changes will cause us to bump up the version number. So the second printing of the First Edition will likely result in a Version 7, and whenever we bump a version up for the paper book, we'll release an eBook at the same version number. But we only expect to be making minor changes this way, not major ones. Major changes would be reserved for a Second Edition, Third Edition, etc.
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