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Please delete this book! (pt. 22) [Anyone requests; leave deletions for superlibrarians]
102, 104-106 done and most of 103 but some of those are giving time-outs.
A member has directed my attention to two faulty editions. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
and
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
The bottom one has an invalid ISBN, and the upper one, after checking with Amazon and WorldCat, seems to possess the ISBN that belongs to the bottom cover. Can you help fix that?
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This thread is just for duplicate editions needing deletion. Please don't post other book issues here.
Sorry--I figured out the issue and here is the duplicate edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Mod
That book has a valid ISBN. Why do you think it is a duplicate?
I believe it is an invalid ISBN--I cannot find any record of it on WorldCat or Amazon. But if you say it is valid...I might be wrong?
Mod
That's not proof of anything.
rivka wrote: That's not proof of anything."Okay, sorry for wasting your time.
Can you please delete some duplicates of my books. There are four with no covers posted which are duplicates. I sent a message to a librarian listed with my books on her to-read list, about a month ago or more. Nothing's been done, so I requesting here.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
There is also an unpublished book listed twice, both with the wrong covers. One should be deleted, but the other only have the cover removed so I can upload the correct one due to it's imminent publication. I'm listing both of them.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
My question is why was it easy as a member to change the covers of my books on my author page, but now that I'm merged why can't i, as the author, do that any more? Why do you block authors from updating cover information on their own books?
Judith
Judith-Victoria wrote: "Can you please delete some duplicates of my books. There are four with no covers posted which are duplicates. I sent a message to a librarian listed with my books on her to-read list, about a mont..."Hi Judith,
I'm working on your books right now. Unfortunately, the links you provided didn't work for me. However, I'm going through your books right now, combining editions as appropriate, and deleting any duplicates. It would help, however, if you let me know what covers need to be added. Because Goodreads is not a bookseller, we don't delete out-of-date or no-longer-available editions. If it was ever available, it stays. However, we do create alternate cover editions for books that are republished with the same ISBN or ASIN but with new covers. The reason authors can't change covers are numerous, but the simple answer is because GR librarians know how to add or change covers in accordance with GR policy.
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First, I want to thank you for your quick and correct work. Now, if I'm understanding what you need correctly:No covers need to be added. The cover on The Carousel Pony was a temp until the final cover for this unpublished work is available. That won't be until the end of October, so the current one has never been published. If the current cover could be deleted I could upload the current cover which will go on the published book when it is released.
Also:
I posted another issue and hoping Marissa is looking into it now. I don't want all the covers for Ariel's Cottage and A Price for Love to be deleted...but they were, except for the one no longer in print. I was told I could pick the cover I wanted as authors are allowed. However, I am not allowed, or I would have take care of the one above already without bothering you.
If this problem doesn't get resolved soon I will request it again for correction. I just knew it'd be a problem for someone who worked too fast before reading the instructions.
Thanks again, Z-Squared.
Judith-Victoria wrote: "First, I want to thank you for your quick and correct work. Now, if I'm understanding what you need correctly:No covers need to be added. The cover on The Carousel Pony was a temp until the fina..."
I have deleted the cover of The Carousel Pony. See the other thread you posted in for more complete information about the rest of your issues.
Correct cover for The Carousel Pony is up. Thank you. All deletions okay. Thank you. Waiting for Ariel's Cottage/A Price for Love to set default cover. And I never asked anyone to delete these covers. I knew better than that. I like seeing the old covers of books when they change so it was logical to me to leave them. I'm just hoping it will be understood that A Price of Love is the Large Print and Kindle editions for the book.Thanks again.
Judith
I have two editions of my book, Now Boarding. I want to keep the Kindle edition and delete the other one. This is the link to the book's page. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Thanks for your help.
Charles wrote: "I have two editions of my book, Now Boarding. I want to keep the Kindle edition and delete the other one. This is the link to the book's page. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1......"
done
Spam should be flagged/reported to the staff so they can also take action to the source of the spam.
Dupshttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
and
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
and
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
and
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
and
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
Renske wrote: "Spam should be flagged/reported to the staff so they can also take action to the source of the spam."All info credited to "deleted user"
127,128,130,132,133 done.129 done except the first one.
129, first one and 134 both: there are differences in titles, so I'm going to leave this for someone who knows the Arabic language (lafon حمزة ?)
This edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...is a duplicate of this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
This: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...is a duplicate of this:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Please merge https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... and https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (no isbn) and then recombine with https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... thanks!
Please merge https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... and https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio... (mistyped ISBN)
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Not of movies, which that one is.
I don't think this is a valid book, at least not under this title: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
The title makes it sound like it's an omnibus of 3 novels in the Starfire series by David Weber & Steve White, but as far as I know, the books are available only in single form OR omnibuses of just 2 novels (The Stars at War and The Stars at War II).
The ISBN doesn't really help either. I think it should be deleted, but am unsure.
Mod
rivka wrote: "147 seems to be a valid, published book. It might need correcting, but I don't think it needs deletion."I don't know, it seems like the kind of correction that would involve changing the title and the author since searching the ISBN brings up hardly any results at all or give a different book/author for which I can't find any information either. Very confusing to me...
Please merge & delete duplicate. Thx!https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... & https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
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