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Lyn (Readinghearts)
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Aug 28, 2012 04:50PM
The attached link shows as Daybreak, but in reality the ISBN is for a book by author Tom Peek called Daughters of Fire from KOA publishing which is expected to publish October 152 2012. Daybreak is actually a book by David Swanson which has a totally different ISBN according to the cover copy that is included on the page. I am a newer librarian and am not sure what needs to be done to insure both books are listed correctly.
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Sorry, the ISBN in question is 9780982165621 for Daughters of Fire and 2940000211717 for the e-book copy of Daybreak.
Ordinarily this would be an indication that the ISBN had been accidentally reused between the books, but in this case I can find no evidence that Daybreak was ever published with this ISBN. I think this is just bad data from ingram and I'm going to correct this record to be an edition of Daughters of Fire.
Thanks Cait. As I said, I was hesitant to change it cuz I wasn't sure how to check the ISBN to see if it was ever used for the other book.
Lyn M wrote: "Thanks Cait. As I said, I was hesitant to change it cuz I wasn't sure how to check the ISBN to see if it was ever used for the other book."Already having other editions up for Daybreak with different ISBNs doesn't prove anything, since most publishers do the right thing and get new ISBNs for new editions -- and of course if the book was being published by a new publisher (ingram had loaded Koa, the publisher for Daughters of Fire, as the publisher for this ISBN, which was here part of the book mixup but could have been an indication that Koa was publishing a new edition of Daybreak) then that publisher would have a whole new ISBN for the book. So basically I googled the heck out of both forms of the ISBN, the publishers (Koa and Seven Stories, the publisher for Daybreak), the titles and authors, and the date ranges. :) Usually even a preliminary ISBN will be propagated across the usual suspects once it gets posted anywhere, but I could find no evidence of it here for anything except the new book. (Although, by the way, it did lead me to spend several hours tracking down all of the various Davids Swanson and putting their author profiles in order! That was a bit of a mess.)
