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Incorrect Publish Dates imported from Amazon

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Lead: @mekarpeles Module: Import Needs: Help Priority: 3 Theme: Bots Type: Bug
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Description

Not 100% sure if this is the right place to be reporting data issues, but since it seems systemic and potentially fixable by a script:

There are a number of books that have very old release dates (17th, 18th Century) for modern novels that have been imported via Amazon.com where the incorrect data appears to have originated and is still displayed.

I'd guess you'd be able to list them by looking for Editions with ISBNs from any time before ISBNs were a thing. I'd guess that Amazon sellers need to get that bit right to get the correct cover details etc, but can get away with less care when it comes to the dates and other metadata.

Actually, possibly some were imported from Amazon by bot, which will provide a decent paper trail too.

### Relevant url?
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27655882M/Batman_and_Robin?m=history

### Steps to Reproduce
I think I spotted the ones I found mostly by search "All" for an author's name. As well as bring up things written about the author and various other misfiled things, I found a few like this. I can't find some of them again now, I'm not sure if tidying up other works by the same author may have triggered an automatic cleanup (e.g. if two items with the same barcode get added to duplicate authors, but with different dates, possibly it gets sorted automatically when changing the author?)

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- **Environment (prod/dev/local)?** prod

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