Questions about adding ebooks

[[deleted user]]

If an author has published an ebook and a Kindle edition, where can we get the ebook information from? For example, if they've published an ebook on Barnes & Noble, I'm wondering where we get the publication date, without going to B&N.

We already have the book description, and I can get the BNID from a link on their blog or whatever, but I don't know where to get the publication date. On their website they might announce the Kindle publication date, but not the B&N date. Besides, the date of a blog post doesn't equal publication date.

I also have a question about adding covers of books existing on Goodreads. It's a stupid question, but if you add another edition, can you just copy the cover already on Goodreads, if you know it's the same? Sorry if that's silly, I'm just not sure.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

If you know the cover for new edition same as already uploaded cover, yes, can copy.

Sometimes you can pull information like publish dates from a publisher website.

A lot of data we do have to wait for an author or member to post requesting that it be added.

I try to be vigilant on nook and kindle books I download to add their info to goodreads. It is allowed to upload screenshots of ebooks you yourself own (or scans/photos of your own print books).

It was not goodreads' choice to stop getting data from the bookseller sites. A few hundred past threads rolling around, particularly on amazon (who bottom line refused gr the data feed unless gr would advertise only amazon on the book page but would condescend to allow gr to put a link to take members to another page to see additional booksellers).

Publisher sites that are also bookseller sites are okay to use for data.

[Emy]

Personally - download a sample copy, then pillage the information... Sometimes I need to use a programme like Calibre to extract all the metadata, but it's usually there in the files somewhere.

Yes, we can self plagiarise covers :)