iBooks not appearing on GoodReads

[Pulitzer]

Hi there!

I tried to upload two ibooks onto GoodReads (In Search of Home and Voices of Haiti) and found that they are not showing up? Curious as to whether this is an iBooks specific issue?

[Empress]

I believe you first need to add it as an edition (ebook), and then the book itself. Have you done this?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Please clarify exactly what you are trying to do. Do the books exist in the GR database? If so, please link.

Is an ibook a type of ebook? It may not be a file type we support.

[lafon حمزة]

Is Pulitzer trying to upload an ebook from iBooks? Or simply have a link to the Apple store? Something else? An aside: iBook editions are simple ePub files that have one or both a specific identifying file for iTunes and the FairPlay DRM. If the latter, then it probably won't work (I think. I'm not sure how Goodreads deals with DRM. rivka?)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I also found out that we recently changed who can upload ebooks. Uploading ebooks is now limited to the author of a work and Goodreads employees.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

I don't think ebooks formatted for ibooks free author platform will upload anyway (not a supported format I don't believe).

DRM is not mentioned or dealt with on goodreads. (Neither are file types like epub; all that ereader/download/file info is for bookseller, publisher, or other product pages selling/downloading the ebook rather than goodreads database).

Books on iBooks just get listed as format="ebook" with isbn (if same isbn or 13-digit identifier used to sell on other sites, actually is not an iBooks edition anyway even if sold on iBooks with or without their fairplay drm).

Unusual but possible that an author or publisher did obtain multiple ebook isbn's and that one was just for iBooks. If so, then really is an iBooks ebook.

In this case, if the books at http://pulitzercenter.org/blog/haiti-... then does look like were iBooks exclusive. I'm not familiar enough to pull the isbn13 or 13-digit ibooks number from the books but am adding by titles and authors.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

I added Voices of Haiti using info on that web page: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17... (I put editor Sawyer as primary author; more authors or info can be added if anyone knows better). In Search of Home at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17....

Neither currently has isbn13 field.

[Pulitzer]

Hi all,

Thank you so much for this! It worked perfectly using the webpage rather than the book itself!

[Pulitzer]

Hi Debbie,

I had one more additional question -- is there any way we can link the iTunes pages of each respective book on to their GoodReads pages? There doesn't seem to be an option linking to the iTunes store, but at the very least, including it at the top of the description?

Thank you so much -- my apologies for all these questions and requests!

Voices of Haiti: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/voic...
In Search of Home: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/in-s...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Links on each book's page are not customizable on a per-book basis. Each user customizes which links they see for all books.

[Pulitzer]

Ah - so there's no way to add these links to the descriptions of each respective book?

Thank you!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Bookseller links may not be added to book descriptions or the book's official URL field. (They will be removed if they are.)

Users who wish to have links to iTunes will add them to their link list.