new packaging for A Best
 

This isn't really something new, but I don't think anyone has mentioned it before...
the new version doesn't have the slip cover. The booklet features the photo that was on the slip cover. It has an obi that advertises the albums from which they selected songs from.

Has anyone else seen this version?

no i have never seen it...is it a japanese version or overseas version?

Japanese version.

I have this version. My guess is that it's the standard version of the album, and the ones with the slip cover are limited. I'd love to get my hands on an unopened set of the limited ones. I've seen them on eBay, but they were so cheap I didn't know if they were JPN versions or just bootlegs.

It's not new packaging...it's just the normal edition. Only the first press comes with the slipcover, same thing for A BALLADS and some of her remix albums.

All of the Ayu CDs that I have ordered that were supposed to have slip covers..have them. o_O I think. I'm not necessarily sure which ones were supposed to have one..

see:

A song for XX --didn't have one
Ayu-mi-x --didn't have one
LOVEppears --didn't have one
Ayu-ro-mix 1 --didn't have one
Ayu-mi-x II NSMM --didn't have one
DUTY --didn't have one
Ayumi-x III AOV&NSMM --have the funky plastic one's
Ayu-ro-mix 2 --has one
A BEST --has one
I am... --didn't have one
Ayu-trance 1 --has one
Ayu-mi-x 4 NSMM&AOV --didn't have them
RAINBOW --didn't have one
A BALLADS --had one
RMX WORKS --didn't have them
Memorial Address --didn't have one