Hey Evan, That's printed in a lot of books, in fact it usually counts down from 10. I think it might have something to do with the edition or printing or something along those lines. BTW it doesn't always start with 10 and end with 1, but that is a common example. HTH, Jake ----- Original Message ----- From: Evan Reese To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 1:25 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] What's with the Countdown A very trivial question, but on several books I've checked lately, at the bottom of the page with the copyright info and ISBN and so forth is written: 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Anyone know what that's about? Just wondering.