Let's Talk Bookish; Are “Special Editions” Still Special?

It's Friday, which means it's probably time for a new Let's Talk Bookish post courtesy of Book Nook Bits and Dinipanda Reads, and today's topic is special editions.

Here's the further prompts for today's discussion.

With the amount of ‘special’, ‘limited’, or ‘collectors’ editions that have saturated the market (including special limited ARCs), do you still consider special editions to be special? Do you buy special editions? If so, what makes you want to buy one (i.e. sprayed edges, foiling, character art, etc.)? Give us the tea— what books do you think have too many special editions, and what books do you wish had more (or even one!) special editions?

At the moment, I'm a bit fed up and done with the whole special editions-thing going on. The market is so saturated with them, that the special editions aren't that special anymore quite frankly. Fair enough, some of them are really pretty, but I'm only buying a special edition of a book that's one of my favourites. For instance, I've got multiple editions of Bram Stoker's Dracula as it's one of my all-time favourites, so it's not like I'm mindlessly buy all special editions that exists "just because".

I personally think there's too many special editions of fantasy books at the moment, whether it's ACOTAR or whatever books or series that's hyped at the moment. It's after all just a marketing ploy to get  readers to buy more books because of the look of the special editions, because yes, sometimes there's multiple special editions for a specific title.

I honestly wish that if the publishers are going to make a special edition of a book, they would focus on either classics and/or WELL WRITTEN books in general. I would have loved to see some sort of special edition of The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova for instance, but I doubt it exists.