Difference Between Edition and Version, and Bill and Cash Memo

[Moumita Hazra]

Hi

I have two questions.

1. What is difference between "Edition" and "Version"

2. What is difference between "Bill" and "Cash Memo"

[Shweta Patil]

Hi,

Pls find the answers below, hope this will help:

Edition:The bibliographical definition of an edition includes all copies of a book printed “from substantially the same setting of type,” including all minor typographical variants.

Version: a particular form of something differing in certain respects from an earlier form or other forms of the same type of thing.

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Cash memo is the receipt which shows the sales of products or services.
Bill is a statement or list of items.

[Jaishankar]

please see the difference 

http://kalyan-city.blogspot.com/2011/04/difference-between-cash-mem...

[Jaishankar]

There are many different uses of each of those words (including the heavy use of version for software), but in their main meaning, the difference is mainly given by the (New Oxford American Dictionary) definition of edition:

edition (noun): a particular form or version of a published text

The emphasis is mine, and it outlines the core of the matter. If you're thinking of a text, each state of the manuscript or typescript is a version of the text, while only published versions are editions

To give an example: over a span of one year, there were many many versions of my thesis, but there was only one edition of it (the final, published work).

Another way of explanation

For one, 'edition' pertains to a publication of sorts in particular, whereas 'version' could pertain to anything from a software program to a narrated story.

Also, 'a newer version' implies improvements or corrections have been made, whereas 'a newer edition' could just have been commissioned because the previous edition sold out.

[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]

Dear Ms.Moumita Hazra,

Thanks for your post and the queries.

Editions of a document (like a book) always carry some sort of MODIFICATIONS (like addition, deletion, rewriting, updation etc.).

Otherwise if the same copy WITHOUT any modification is printed again, it is called REPRINTING.

It often happens (especially in text books) that since the printed copies are exhausted, the same book is REPRINTED to accommodate customers.

Here the earlier galley is printed as such without any changes.

While doing catalogue of such (reprinted) book, for the case of IMPRINT, one can mention the date of first publication as well

BUT in case it is edited, one has to put the Edition Statement and in the IMPRINT, the date corresponding to the particular edition has to be mentioned.

For example, there is an extremely important book especially for young Science Researcher called How to write & Publish a Scientific Paper by Robert A. Day. The book was originally published from ISI Press, Philadelphia in 1979. and as of now, it has 6 editions.(6th. Edition was published in 2006 jointly with Barbara Gastel) 

The 2nd. Edition was published in 1983 where in the preface, the author writes, "...And the First edition led naturally to this Second Edition. ..... it seems desirable to keep it up to date and to correct the (few) imperfections that appeared in the first edition..."

Now for cataloguing the second edition one has to mention

2nd. Ed.

Philadelphia, ISI Press, 1983.

So with the above two statements, it is easy to understand what an edition really means!

A Version on the other hand, is different in several sense, it can be an extended or abridged form or even a translation as well [like the book (bearing ISBN: 9780143100195): The Mahabharata, Vol. 7 (sections 73 to 77) translated by Bibek Debroy; Penguin Books India, 2013] This is an English Version of the Original epic  Mahabharata by Krishna Dwaipayan Byasa.

A Cash Memo is a receipt of payment paid in Cash across the counter while

a Bill is a financial statement depicting cost of certain materials (generally) delivered earlier for which payment is made (generally) on a later date/time.However, these are etymological meaning but in practice we often receive BILLS during the counter transactions as well and we receive the merchandise only after producing the PAID BILL. In many departmental Stores or Shopping mall where there are specific counters for payment, we often see such modes of transactions which is truly speaking, exactly the other way round!!

I hope I could explain your queries.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

[R K]