superlibrarian needed

[willaful]

A blog author has had currently unpublished posts added as a book to GoodReads and would like it deleted ASAP.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

Here is her post asking for help: http://www.anamardoll.com/2012/10/sel...

[Banjomike]

Deleted.

Her post is interesting. Did she contact you directly or did you see it on her blog (or here)?

[willaful]

My husband reads her blog and he asked me if I was a superlibrarian and could help.

Thanks for deleting.

[Paula]

Banjomike wrote: "Deleted.

Her post is interesting. Did she contact you directly or did you see it on her blog (or here)?"

She was offering a download in different formats i.e. lit, epub and some one had rated it, to me it was published under GR terms and I referred her to GR powers that be when she messaged me

[Banjomike]

I thought we had decided, somewhere, that merely existing as a file did not automatically equal publishing. This was essentially a non-fiction fanfic made up of blog posts (identical in format to many of the other blog posts on her site) that was downloadable.

This was also the only book-thing I've ever deleted on GR.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

We DO remove fanfic by author request, so that's fine.

[lafon حمزة]

rivka wrote: "We DO remove fanfic by author request, so that's fine."

To clarify: What if it's been shelved by lots and lots of people? Or even just one or two?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Fanfic is a borderline case for adding in the first place, and can have legal issues. Therefore, if we can verify that the request to remove a given fanfic is coming from the author, we will remove it.

[Banjomike]

rivka wrote: "Fanfic is a borderline case for adding in the first place, and can have legal issues. Therefore, if we can verify that the request to remove a given fanfic is coming from the author, we will remove..."

The legal issues question could have been significant in this case. The book makes VERY considerable use of passages copied from the original novel. It looks very interesting and is on my, NON-Goodreads, reading list.

I think that if the author had messaged me directly as she did to Paula then I would have done exactly what Paula did and passed it to Caustomer Care. Sometimes this direct messaging business could be seen as trying to bypass the normal request/discuss/completion procedure that characterizes much of what we do on GR and, in my opinion, helps to make it work.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Directing someone to Customer Care is definitely always ok. :)