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help! my book is listed with multiple wrong authors!!
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Actually, this one is just totally wrong:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
Can it be deleted? I would love to claim Whitman's writings as my own but... no such luck!
And actually, this one has the wrong synopsis:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
Is it possible to delete them all and start over? So sorry to be a bother!!!!
Kyla Tompkins
Kyla wrote: "Actually, this one is just totally wrong:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
Can it be deleted? I would love to claim Whitman's writings as my own but... no such luck!"
So why did you say it WAS yours?
No. They cannot be deleted.
Graham wrote: "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...That Better?
Are There Any Other People That Contributed, Edited,Or Had Any Other Part In The Making Of The Book That Should Be Mentioned. BTW I Changed The Synopsis To The One Currenty On AMAZON.COM.
G.C. :) "
Graham. We cannot use information from Amazon or any other bookseller.
You should, perhaps, read this:
http://www.goodreads.com/help/librarian
Graham wrote: "Sorry, What Should I Do? :("Really read the manual. There are good reasons why we don't use bookseller info and the manual list what we can and cannot use.
I've replaced the default description with the text from the authors tumblr page. It looks pretty much the same but we can now prove that it is not Amazon data.
Looks like an interesting book.
Kyla wrote: "Can it be deleted? I would love to claim Whitman's writings as my own but... no such luck!"If you mean can the description be deleted, yes, but in this case I replaced it with the same description as the other editions.
If you mean the edition, no, as it is a perfectly valid ISBN for your book.
Banjomike wrote: "So why did you say it WAS yours?"
If you looked at the link she provided, it is her book, it just had a description of a Whitman collection. It wasn't clear from her post but it was very obvious once you looked at the edition. I fixed it to use the default description.
Traveling Diva wrote: "If you looked at the link she provided, it is her book, it just had a description of a Whitman collection. It wasn't clear from her post but it was very obvious once you looked at the edition. I fixed it to use the default description. "If you check my previous post you will see that it was ME who added the default description.
The OP was asking, I think, for the books to be deleted as they were completely wrong. Since she also said they were hers I thought there was a contradiction somewhere.
Banjomike wrote: "Traveling Diva wrote: "If you looked at the link she provided, it is her book, it just had a description of a Whitman collection. It wasn't clear from her post but it was very obvious once you look..."Yes I know you changed the default. I'm sorry, you seem offended. It was not my intention to agitate you. I only changed the book she referred to as Whitman's to use the default description you provided.
Traveling Diva wrote: "Yes I know you changed the default. I'm sorry, you seem offended. It was not my intention to agitate you. I only changed the book she referred to as Whitman's to use the default description you provided. "Not offended, just in a rush. Sorry. I thought the Whitman description was removed yesterday. Odd.
Actually, I wrote that synopsis for my publisher, who used it for the back of the book and for Amazon, so I guess you could say it belongs to me?
I'm so grateful for everyone's help here - thank you for correcting the listing. I have a bad feeling that the publisher also messed up Books In Print so that's my next stop. Bests, Kyla
Here are the wrong listings:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
and
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
Thank you!!
Kyla Tompkins