Editing American Gods (section)

==Publishing history==
The book was published in 2001 by [[Headline Publishing Group|Headline]] in the United Kingdom and by [[William Morrow and Company|William Morrow]] in the United States.

A special tenth anniversary edition, which includes the "author's preferred text" and 12,000 additional words, was published in June 2011 by William Morrow. The tenth anniversary text is identical to the signed and numbered limited edition released in 2003 by Hill House Publishers, and to the edition from Headline, Gaiman's publisher in the UK since 2005.<ref name="NG-Sacred">{{cite web |url=http://www.neilgaiman.co.uk/index.php?pgId=46 |website=NeilGaiman.co.uk |title=American Gods: Is Nothing Sacred? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509024721/http://www.neilgaiman.co.uk/index.php?pgId=46 |archive-date=9 May 2009}} Retrieved on 13 June 2009.</ref> The tenth anniversary edition marked the first time the author's preferred text had been available in wide release outside the UK.<ref name= "Neil Gaiman's Journal May 2011">{{cite news |last=Gaiman|first=Neil |url=http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011_05_01_archive.html |title=Neil Gaiman's Journal – May 2011 |work=Neil Gaiman's Journal |date=5 May 2011 |access-date=15 July 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110624080742/http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011_05_01_archive.html| archive-date= 24 June 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>

Two audio versions of the book were produced and published by [[Harper Audio]]: an unabridged version of the original published edition, read by George Guidall, was released in 2001. A [[full cast audiobook]] version of the tenth anniversary edition, including the author's preferred text and 12,000 additional words, was released in 2011.

A comic book series, ''American Gods: Shadows'', was published by [[Dark Horse Comics]] starting in March 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sava |first1=Oliver |title=Neil Gaiman's American Gods comes to comics in this exclusive preview |url=https://news.avclub.com/neil-gaiman-s-american-gods-comes-to-comics-in-this-exc-1798256616 |website=A.V. Club |access-date=18 November 2018 |date=23 January 2017 |archive-date=18 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118205902/https://news.avclub.com/neil-gaiman-s-american-gods-comes-to-comics-in-this-exc-1798256616 |url-status=live }}</ref> A book of the same name, collecting issues 1 through 9 of the comic book series, was published by Dark Horse Books in February 2018.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=American Gods Volume 1: Shadows HC |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/30-457/American-Gods-Volume-1-Shadows-HC |website=Dark Horse Comics |access-date=18 November 2018 |archive-date=26 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626182123/https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/30-457/American-Gods-Volume-1-Shadows-HC |url-status=live }}</ref>

In March 2017, [[The Folio Society]] published a special collector's edition of ''American Gods'', with many corrections to the author's preferred text version. Gaiman described this edition as 'the cleanest text there has ever been' of the novel.<ref name="NG-Sacred"/>