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Feb 28, 2013 10:29AM
Hi this book has 320 pages - thanks.
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Worldcat says 239, that's a huge difference. Do you have the book in front of you?
Worldcat got it wrong. Bookdepository and Amazon say 320.
We cannot take data from booksellers. Book Depository is a seller.
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I understand...So if we have a reader saying his copy has a certain number of pages which match with booksellers but not with Worldcat, "who" should we consider?
In the Amazon link that WorldCat actually provides says also 320.
Just trying to understand better :)
As Rivka says - Worldcat.WorldCat data is taken from the copy physically held in the hand. Amazon etc. is usually working from pre-publication figures, data supplied from third parties, and rarely from the actual book itself. We want the most accurate data regarding the item, rather than an approximation based on the amount of paper needed in the printing process...
Darklady wrote: "So if we have a reader saying his copy has a certain number of pages which match with booksellers but not with Worldcat, "who" should we consider?"Amazon and other book databases often use page numbers based on the actual physical number of pages including all the blank pages, so even if we could use the data from there, it's often inaccurate.
If the reader has confirmed that they have the book in front of them, that's fine. But in this case, Daniel has made several page numbering requests that disagree with WorldCat but match the page numbers on Amazon - which seems a suspicious pattern to me.
Vicky wrote: "Darklady wrote: "So if we have a reader saying his copy has a certain number of pages which match with booksellers but not with Worldcat, "who" should we consider?"Amazon and other book databases..."
Thanks Vicky, got it :)
