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Leigh Palmer wrote:
It has always astonished me that physics textbooks are so poorly
written that they must be constantly revised. ...
I raised this issue with a publisher's rep many years ago, and I was
told that the books usually aren't revised because they need to be
rewritten. The real reason is that the buying public wants the books
to look 'new and fresh'.