Revised book/new ISBN - new GR book page?

[Ella]

I am considering heavily revising the above book. Not editing it, but actually revising it. Meaning, I will unpublish the above book completely from Amazon, Smashwords and all print versions. The revised edition will have a new ASIN/ISBN.

My question is this:
Will the old version still have a GR book page or will be it be or should it be deleted? I don't want to 'combine' these editions because the book will be different and I want the current ratings/reviews to reflect the revised edition and not the old version.

How does this work?

[Paula]

The old published book stays on GR. This is a book cataloging site and as such we do not delete published books.

General practice is to combine the revised edition with the old edition.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[Ella]

Paula wrote: "The old published book stays on GR. This is a book cataloging site and as such we do not delete published books.

General practice is to combine the revised edition with the old edition.

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Just to clarify, the old version will be UNpublished, but the stats will remain on GR, correct?

But... for the new revised edition, I want stats that are current to the new version, not the stats for the older unpublished version.
I do not want to combine the books as they will essentially contain different content and any reviews that were posted for the old version will NOT be relevelant for the new version.

Am I making any sense?

[Paula]

yes - you are making perfect sense -

GR policy is to combine revised editions of books unless they they are completely rewritten

[Ella]

Paula wrote: "yes - you are making perfect sense -

GR policy is to combine revised editions of books unless they they are completely rewritten"

Yes, it will be rewritten, that is what I was meaning to say by heavily revised. The content will be different.

So in that case, what will happen? Will I have to make a new GR book page altogether?

Thanks for the patience with my questions, BTW.

[Paula]

there will be a new gr book page, whether the editions are combined or not will be judged when the book are read and dependent on how similar the two are

[Sandra]

Ella, to help out us poor librarians, can you please use a totally new name for the book as well. Otherwise it might just get combined by mistake.