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i changed the cover on all of my Great Succession Crisis books (digital and print). How can I get the covers updated on GoodReads? Here's an example from Amazon of Revised Edition Great Succession Crisis: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Successio... and here is the print version on Create Space: https://www.createspace.com/3969238. Same applies across the rest of my books; will be another day before the print version of Data Files will be updated, but I think the rest do have the new covers published. My change was actually prompted by a constructive remark from a Good Reads member who is currently reading my book. :)
We don't change covers for books under almost any circumstance (books never released into the wild in any way and court orders usually get a leave pass). GR and it's readers want a comprehensive book catalogue of every book edition ever published. That way readers have the book they physically own, with the proper cover, on their GR shelves.What we do in the circumstances you mention, when books change their covers but not much else, is create Alternate Cover Editions - essentially you add the books again, without the ISBN/ASIN numbers but with a note at the top of the description field saying that the edition is an Alternate Cover Edition for . We then combine them with the other editions and readers can then choose the book cover they have.
On your GR Author Dashboard, somewhere, is the option to choose which cover is the primary cover that appears in searches, etc. So you can make sure your new covers are the ones people see the most, if that's important to you.
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No, it's on the book edition's edit page.
Jimi-carol wrote: "Got the cover for you."Thanks a lot!
http://shop.renebooks.com/v/vspfiles/...