[RDA-L] Treatment of alternative formats in RDA

How does RDA treat alternative formats in the same database (intellectual content identical, but the content is delivered on different physical carriers). Specifically, I would like to know best practices for the following: if a print edition of an E-book is already in the database, is it

Re: [RDA-L] Treatment of alternative formats in RDA

Audrey Williams asked: if a print edition of an E-book is already in the database, is it better to add a link to the E-book on the bibliographical record of the print expression or add a new bibliographical record ... Add a new record. The fixed fields would differ, as would the 33X media

Re: [RDA-L] Treatment of alternative formats in RDA

Different carriers constitute different manifestations, warranting separate records. As Mac Elrod responded, the physical descriptions would be different. The single-record/multi-version approach had an appeal at one point, primarily to avoid presenting patrons with multiple records for a single