Understanding Analytics on updated Folios

We have an App which has been in the iTunes store for over a year which contains 4 folios.
Unlike a publication such as "Wired" magazine, our client does not want previous issues to appear in the app - each updated monthly issue effectively overwrites the previous issue (this is because each issue has its own monthly set of pricing for products within the folio).
By updating the folio, changing the issue name to the new month, and updating the relevant thumbnails etc, this allows us to create a new version of the publication without it actually being a whole new folio.
So far so good.
The problem for us and our client is that we can't find a way to determine how many downloads of the folio are happening each month (we can look at the Consolidated Reports etc to get an idea of total folios being downloaded, we can look at the Analytics to show similar details, but it only seems to register a "download" when someone downloads that folio for the first time). If that someone has already downloaded the folio, then subsequently downloads the next month's updated folio, this doesn't appear to register as a download.
I suspect that this is a win for us, and a lose for Adobe (so I probably shouldn't be mentioning it here), but we'd really love to be able to show the stats to our client so that they feel like there are actually people reading each new issue of the publications.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can make the analytics work for us in this instance?
Cheers,
Eoghan.

Thanks for your reply confirming the inability to determine the count of "updated" folios downloaded Neil.
In response to the "wacky" comment, you ask: "When your client published print catalogs they didn't try to pull back the previous month's print catalog, they just sent out a new one with new pricing. Why do they want to do it with the digital version?"
I would have thought the answer to that would be obvious: This is not a print version, this is a digital version - digital's new, right? Why would we want to just keep on replicating the same old system as we were forced to do with print?
As a "solutions provider" for our client, doesn't it make sense to have just the one updated version, with current pricing as the ONLY version available? This saves confusion for the end user (our client's customers), it saves them having to delete the old version before their iPad fills up with outdated issues (which are no longer useful), and it ensures that our client's sales staff are not having to waste time explaining to customers who are expecting a particular price that they've been looking at the wrong issue.
We still print those catalogs for our client, but with declining print numbers of each publication, providing a digital version for those who want it is a great way for the client to lower costs, and for us to continue to be able to serve our client and make a few dollars.
I can understand that Adobe might not like this method of delivering content, as there is no "download fee" collected for an updated version of a folio, but this helps us to dilute the unexpected costs lumped on us in March when the ball game changed unilaterally for Professional Edition users.
Eoghan.

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