Questions about adding/prioritizing editions

[Avory]

Apologies if this has already been asked, but I can't find it in the manual or on the first page of discussion posts.

1) How do you add an edition? For example, the book "The Master" by Colm Toibin is only listed in a large print edition. I want to add the other editions so that I can include the proper cover image, etc.

2) Is there a way to control the primary edition? For example, when you search for Charlotte Roche's Wetlands, you come up with the German version as a default. That would probably confuse readers who don't speak German, if they don't think to click on the editions.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

1) If you know the other edition(s) ISBN(s), try searching by them. They may already be in the GR database. If not, but they are in Amazon's database, searching by ISBN will add them to the GR database. If they don't come up when searching, you can add them manually. Don't forget to combine all editions of a book once you've found them, so they are linked.

2) Currently, there is not. GR is hoping to add this ability in the future, but I don't know what the timeline is on that.

[jenjn79]

There are already 20+ editions of The Master on GR:
http://www.goodreads.com/work/edition...

There was an author spelling issue
(Colm Tóibín vs Colm Toibin)

I merged the authors and combined editions.

[Avory]

Isis, I just figured that out - thank you for the help and the merging :-D

[jenjn79]

You're welcome :)