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Phoenix
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Dec 13, 2012 09:29PM
I need help taking a book off, as it is no longer for sale. I am doing a complete re-write and probably a different cover and title. Author Phoenix Reads. The book is The Pirates of Vampire Island. Also need help taking the video down. My email is read@booksbyphoenix.com
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I'm not sure about the video part; anyone else able to help author with the video? Once they are a goodreads author I think staff or superlibrarian has to step in to edit video or anything to do with their profile (or I would try to help with video part).(Agree, book in print at one rime has to stay; goodreads has book data pages versus product pages. Author or librarian can put information on new edition reflecting that it's revised and author can set the new one to be the primary edition so that only the new book shows on their author page and simple searches. But older book can't be yanked from shelves and can be seen if other editions selected on book's page.)
Are we talking about the video on the authors homepage? If I go to the edit video page there IS an option to "delete this video" right at the bottom of the page. I don't know if the author can see that and I also don't know if it is OK for me to try to delete the video. It is not a question I have seen before. Anyone know if it is OK?The book stays.
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rivka wrote: "Videos can be removed at the author's discretion."Good enough. The author asked, so it has gone.
Good to know. I was just reluctant to mess into something on a goodreads author profile that I had not encountered before.
Debbie (Debbie Rice) wrote: "Good to know. I was just reluctant to mess into something on a goodreads author profile that I had not encountered before."I had always assumed that stuff on a Goodreads Author page was simply not touchable by us mere plebs. At least the delete worked for me. Yay!
"Delete" makes me confirm when not sure. Most other changes you can backout by hitting "undo" in the librarian change log; I'm just cautious about erasing things (in this case, being at author request, I just did not know I could).
Okay, so I took the trailer down. But the book has to stay on my author page until I have the new edition. It will have a new title and cover, most likely. Will still be able to set a new one as the primary edition?
Phoenix wrote: "Okay, so I took the trailer down. But the book has to stay on my author page until I have the new edition. It will have a new title and cover, most likely. Will still be able to set a new one as the primary edition? "That might depend on how different the new version is to the current one. If it is similar enough to be combined with the existing version then, yes, you will be able to set the new one as the default/primary edition.
If it is very different (more than just changing the title) then it will be a new book and will have its own entry in the database.
