Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24300543-20190603214645/@comment-27666463-20200204070034

The books #49 and #50 you are talking about sound to me like the books that indicate that they came with the metallic tear-out stickers. These have a different ISBN on the front and back covers compared to the ISBN of the "regular" edition (however both editions have the same ISBN on the copyright page). Discussed here: https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/Goosebumps_(original_series)/Tear-outs#.2347-53_With_and_Without_stickers_Editions

Starting with book #37, the line of text on the left side of the front cover of the book (aka the price and ISBN) was removed. The first printing of #37 occurred in November 1995, and this removal of price/isbn from the cover applies to any Goosebumps book published after November 1995 (with the possible exception of any special editions as we are talking about here) including later printings of earlier books. However, this removal of price/isbn from the front cover does not apply to the editions of books #47-53 which include stickers (it does apply to the regular editions).

My personal opinion, which is hard to prove or disprove because I doubt Scholastic has ever stated this explicitly anywhere, is that all of these books are variations of what would later be called 'Scholastic School Market editions' and the slight variations between books that you see (and so far we know that #7,19,44,and 56 are the books that exist like this) have more to do with the year the book was published than being a different type of thing. I think that Scholastic called these 'Scholastic Special editions' in 1993 and dropped that moniker after that year (I have a baby-sitters club book from 1993 with the same logo on the back cover). Then they had no particular name, then in 1997 they were explicitly called 'school market editions' on the back cover of the books. The purpose of these was either:

- to produce a cheap editions so teachers/educators buying in bulk could spend less

- to promote scholastic book clubs to kids who get the book orders, or otherwise to promote the book by adding stickers or another tear-out.

Also, to prove that these books come from book orders or teacher catalogs is almost impossible because only a few scans exist on the internet and they are very rare to find.

I would also be interested in pictures of 7 and 19, including the copyright page.

(and if they are international editions, they would probably be Scholastic India, and would say so on the back cover or copyright page, but I doubt it in this case). I also feel like any pre-release copies would be called 'uncorrected proofs' because a lot of low quality Goosebumps books stock images include the text 'This is only a proof' and presumably physical copies of these existed at one point. Also, these goosebumps books match in form to some school market Animorphs books I have (#30 and #31) which are also half size and have distinct ISBNs (and, because they are published more cheaply, lack raised print, foiled print, or die-cuts).

I also wrote an article about this on the animorphs wiki: https://animorphs.fandom.com/wiki/Scholastic_School_Market_Editions

You can see many similarities between these editions for Animorphs and Goosebumps in terms of publishing details. However all of these Animorphs books were published after 1997.