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When I click on the Barnes and Noble purchase link, it can't find my book. (It's definitely in the BN.com library when you search for "Malibu Nanny.") Similar thing happens with Amazon.com. The message says "your search did not match any products in books." But then it shows up under that in "All product categories." What's going on?
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Malibu Nanny: The True Adventures of the Kardashian Nanny - Sneak Peak Edition 7/12 Also, can BN.com link be added for the earlier version of my book (orange cover)? Amazon link works fine - it takes me to the current book.
This is because there are currently only two editions in the database: the one with ISBN 9780989033107 and the "sneak peek" with no ISBN. It looks like there are at least three more editions to add: a paperback edition with a new ISBN, a Kindle edition with an ASIN, and an ebook with a 294- id from B&N.I've added the Kindle and paperback editions using your website and your co-author's website, but neither of you are listing the B&N id we need to create the third edition. Can you provide it here? This is the 13-digit number beginning 294- which B&N uses to identify their ebook edition of your book.
Since Pam Behan is listed as the first author, she'll have to be the one to select a default edition for this book if you don't want to leave it as it is currently.
Editions:
http://www.goodreads.com/work/edition...
Setting the default:
http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/31...
Okay, here's the BN number: BN ID: 2940016601755How does Pam select the NEW pink version as the default edition?
Okay, all set! Sorry for the legal hoops.The instructions for setting a default edition are here:
http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/31...
Okay we did that, but now all the reviews from the first edition have been added to the current edition, which isn't appropriate, because they are two completely different books. Also, the profiles that were added for the nook and paperback versions and one of the ebook versions have the wrong subtitle it specifically needs to read "adventures of the former kardashian nanny.". No "the" at beginning and add "former."
I've corrected the subtitles on the new editions.It's standard on GR for all editions of a book to be combined and to share reviews, even if some changes have been made between versions. If you'd like to see reviews specific to a particular edition of a book you can use the filter options (select "filter" and then "editions: this edition").
Got it. Thanks for making changes. One last thing. On the old version which comes up first in Google searches,http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
the Amazon purchase link is now linking to the current book, but the Barnes and Noble is not. Could you please link this old version to Barnes and Noble too? BN ID: 2940016601755
Thanks!!
Sara wrote: "Could you please link this old version to Barnes and Noble too? BN ID: 2940016601755"That's the id which the new edition is using. Did they have the same id?
The older version was never sold online. Not available at all now. So should link to new book. Thx!
Sara, the buy links for each edition should link to sales of that particular edition, since by preference they use the edition's id number. When an edition has no id number they may fall back on searching by title (as the Amazon link does) or they may simply not be available (as with the B&N link). For example, if you click on the Amazon link from the Kindle edition you should be taken directly to the option to purchase a Kindle edition from Amazon, and if you click on the Amazon link from the paperback edition you should be taken directly to the option to purchase the paperback edition from Amazon. If an edition is no longer for sale, the buy links are no longer relevant (or, for print editions, are only useful in the case of used bookseller links). In either case, the id listed for an edition should be the id originally assigned to that edition when it was published. If the id is reused between editions, one edition will have to go without, since the id has to be unique.
I was hoping I could get the link from my book to Amazon fixed. Wife in Name Only. ISBN: 1622667050Correct link
http://www.amazon.com/Wife-in-Name-On...
Many thanks,
Hayson Manning
H Paula,Sorry to be a pain. I can get to Amazon on the link you've provided but if I load a new Goodreads page and click on Online Stores and Amazon I get:
We're sorry. The Web address you entered is not a functioning page on our site
Am I doing doing something wrong?
What do you mean when you say " load a new goodreads page and click on oneline stores"?Are you doing it from the book page or somewhere else
Can you link to the book page you are using
The links to Amazon.co.uk and com work fine for me
Edit: Are you using this book page
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
ISBN 1622667050 (ISBN13: 9781622667055) - ebook?
if so the link to amazon does not work from that page as amazon does not carry that edition
Sorry, Paula. Back again. I asked a friend if she could go to Goodreads and click on the Amazon buy link and she got the same error message page I get which is:amazon.com
Looking for something?
We're sorry. The Web address you entered is not a functioning page on our site.
Go to Amazon.com's Home Page
I really appreciate your help. I'm starting an ad campaign in a couple of days and am hoping I can get the link fixed.
Warm wishes.
Hayson, There are two editions of your book on Goodreads.
The first is an ebook edition with the ISBN 1622667050 (ISBN13: 9781622667055) and is here.
The second is a Kindle Edition of the book with the ASIN B00C2RXWQS and is here, this is the edition that Paula added for you earlier in this thread.
The "Get a copy" links are specific to the page you are currently on. If you are on the ebook edition's page, they will search for the ISBN 9781622667055, if you are on the Kindle Edition's page it will search for the ASIN B00C2RXWQS.
Because Amazon uses their own ASIN identifiers the eBook ISBN is not found on Amazon's page, which is why you are getting the error. If you go to the edition page for the Kindle Edition it will properly direct you to the book on Amazon.
This is the way these buttons work and there is nothing we can do to fix this.
Hi, Vicky,Thanks for clearing that up. I understand now. Thanks so much for your help. Much appreciated.
Warm wishes,
Hi, I just checked my book profile again, and the main profile: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17... is not connecting to BN.com. (BN ID: 2940016601755) I know you set up several different editions. One for paperback, one for kindle and one for nook. So is there any one that the main profile can link to both Amazon and BN? Or when you make one edition the main edition does it just default to whichever purchase link that edition is set up for? Seems like there should be some way to have one version connect to all the places where you can purchase it. Thanks!
Sara wrote: "So is there any one that the main profile can link to both Amazon and BN?"Unfortunately, this is not possible so long as the site in question is using a site specific identifier for the book.
In this case, the edition with the ASIN from Amazon will connect to Amazon and the edition with the #294 number from B&N will connect to Barnes and Noble.
