Why did the revised Magician get labelled New Revised in the UK when the Doubleday edition was Author's Preferred Edition

From: Raymond E. Feist
Date: 22 February 1997

That was HarperCollins's call. For whatever reason Nick Austin (who was running HC's sf/f list at the time) just didn't like Author's Preferred Edition, and changed it to New Revised!

Best, R.E.F.

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