Christy B
02-16-2008, 12:15 PM
I keep seeing this on listings on the B&N website:
Paperback -- ABR
I found a listing on the help page that described paperback, hardcover, mass market, etc -- but it did not define ABR. So, I called the 800 customer service number. I was put on hold, and the rep came back and said "as far as she could tell" the designation ABR meant that "it was a re-released edition".
Well, first of all "as far as I can tell" doesn't inspire confidence. And how do you get the acronym ABR from anything involving editions?
Thought I would check and see if anyone has run into this. My concern is that the ABR stands for "abridged" -- although, in other places, abridged is spelled out completely (the rep said that she was "pretty sure" if the edition was abridged that it would be spelled out; again, "pretty sure" doesn't inspire me to click through to checkout)
Oh, and the reason this matters (there are other editions to choose from) is that my dd has started a "collection" of Puffin Classics -- so we are trying to find more titles in that specific series (otherwise, I'd just choose a title without that confounded ABR and be done with it).
Paperback -- ABR
I found a listing on the help page that described paperback, hardcover, mass market, etc -- but it did not define ABR. So, I called the 800 customer service number. I was put on hold, and the rep came back and said "as far as she could tell" the designation ABR meant that "it was a re-released edition".
Well, first of all "as far as I can tell" doesn't inspire confidence. And how do you get the acronym ABR from anything involving editions?
Thought I would check and see if anyone has run into this. My concern is that the ABR stands for "abridged" -- although, in other places, abridged is spelled out completely (the rep said that she was "pretty sure" if the edition was abridged that it would be spelled out; again, "pretty sure" doesn't inspire me to click through to checkout)
Oh, and the reason this matters (there are other editions to choose from) is that my dd has started a "collection" of Puffin Classics -- so we are trying to find more titles in that specific series (otherwise, I'd just choose a title without that confounded ABR and be done with it).