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However, it is not necessarily the date on which copies of the product will be delivered to retailers, nor the earliest date a retailer may begin retail sales to consumers, nor is it the earliest date on which a consumer may place an advance order (‘pre-order’) a copy of the product. [...] Date of first publication – this is the Publication date of the very first version of the work 2, so for Jane Austen’s Sense and sensibility, each modern version (there are many) has its own contemporary Publication date, but all modern versions share a single Date of first publication, the publication date of the very first version in 1811. [...] The returns deadline is one of these, but there are others: Expected warehouse date – this is the date on which physical stock is expected to be delivered to the supplier, from the manufacturer or from a primary distributor. [...] Copyright pertains to the work rather than a particular 7 Lifecycle dates in ONIX product, so a contemporary paperback should carry a copyright date predating or matching the publication of the hardback (or the first product with the same content), and an e-book of Lord of the Flies should carry a copyright date of 1954 when it was originally published. [...] As a second example, in the early and middle parts of the lifecycle of the product, the Out of print date will not be known.