Editing Please Please Me (section)

===International and CD releases===
In addition to the UK, ''Please Please Me'' was released, un- or lightly-modified, in India, continental Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. In New Zealand, the album first appeared only in mono on the black Parlophone label. The following year (1964) EMI (NZ) changed from black to a blue Parlophone label and the album was again available only in mono. Due to constant demand, it was finally made available in stereo, first through the [[World Record Club]] on their ''Young World'' label in both mono and stereo,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.yokono.co.uk/collection/beatles/nz/lp/nz_lp_wrc.html|title=The Beatles N.Z. LP: Original Released|website=www.yokono.co.uk|access-date=5 March 2020|archive-date=27 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227125933/http://www.yokono.co.uk/collection/beatles/nz/lp/nz_lp_wrc.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and finally on the blue Parlophone label. The album was released in Japan in 1969 with a different cover and a significantly shuffled tracklist.{{cn|date=March 2023}}

EMI's American subsidiary [[Capitol Records]] had been offered the opportunity to release Beatles material since the 1962 release of "Love Me Do", but turned it down.{{sfn|Wallgren|1982|p=16|ps=none}} [[Vee-Jay Records]], a smaller label unaffiliated with EMI, took the initiative of bringing the Beatles to the United States, releasing the "Please Please Me" single on 25 February 1963. Despite its success in Britain, "Please Please Me" failed to chart in the US, and the May release of "[[From Me to You]]" was similarly lacklustre, leading Vee-Jay to lose interest in the Beatles.{{sfn|Wallgren|1982|pp=16&ndash;18|ps=none}} Originally planning on releasing the ''Please Please Me'' album unaltered in July, it ended up trimming "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why" to fit the standard American album length and releasing it as ''[[Introducing... The Beatles]]'' in January 1964.<ref name="Introducing">{{cite web |last1=Ruhlmann |first1=William |title=Introducing...The Beatles |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/introducing-the-beatles-mw0000889073 |website=AllMusic.com |access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref> Capitol remained unimpressed with the group until the rapid success of "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" in Christmas 1963. Buoyed by the resultant [[Beatlemania]] and aware of their previous rejection of the Beatles, Capitol released a modified version of the group's second album ''With the Beatles'', coming out with ''[[Meet the Beatles!]]'' shortly after Vee-Jay had released ''Introducing... The Beatles''. ''Meet the Beatles!'' contains "I Saw Her Standing There", which Capitol released as the American B-side of "I Want to Hold Your Hand".{{sfn|Russell|1982|p=163|ps=none}} Finally acquiring the rights to early Beatles recordings back from Vee-Jay in late 1964, Capitol released most of the other tracks from ''Please Please Me'' on ''[[The Early Beatles]]'' in March 1965, although "Misery" and "There's a Place" remained unreleased by Capitol until 1980's ''[[Rarities (Beatles compilations)#1980 US album|Rarities]]''.{{sfn|Russell|1982|pp=175 & 187|ps=none}}

In Canada, the majority of the album's songs were included upon the Canadian-exclusive release ''[[Twist and Shout (album)|Twist and Shout]]'', which featured "[[From Me to You]]" and "[[She Loves You]]" in place of "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Misery".{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}}

The album was released on CD on 26 February 1987, in mono, as were their three subsequent albums, ''With the Beatles'', ''[[A Hard Day's Night (album)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' and ''[[Beatles for Sale]]''. It was not released on vinyl or tape in the US until five months later when it was issued for the first time in the US on LP and cassette on 21 July 1987.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebeatles.com/album/please-please-me|title=Please Please Me|website=The Beatles|language=en|access-date=5 March 2020|archive-date=21 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421091552/https://www.thebeatles.com/album/please-please-me|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="UCR" />

''Please Please Me'' was remastered and re-released on CD in stereo, along with all the other original UK studio albums, on 9 September 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5363RN20090407|title=Original Beatles digitally remastered|work=Reuters|date=7 April 2009|access-date=14 September 2009|first=Mike|last=Collett-White|archive-date=30 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130032253/https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5363RN20090407|url-status=live}}</ref> The 2009 remasters replaced the 1987 remasters. A remastered mono CD was also available as part of ''[[The Beatles in Mono]]'' box set.<ref>{{cite news|last=Aughton|first=Simon|agency=Reuters|title=Remastered Beatles on iTunes in 2008|date=4 June 2007|url=http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/114590/remastered-beatles-on-itunes-in-2008.html|work=PC Pro|access-date=2 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108124352/http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/114590/remastered-beatles-on-itunes-in-2008.html|archive-date=8 November 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>