ISBNs, eRetailers and Search

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*]

I was looking for The Garden of the Stone as I just purchased it from Kobo.

Everyone knows the search stinks so I used Kobo's ISBN to search: 9781604504972 and got nothing.

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eboo...

Did the same ISBN search with DuckDuckGo and also saw Smashwords uses the same ISBN of 9781604504972.

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...

So why doesn't that ISBN work here? From what I can tell, we only have the B&N 294 ISBN on file:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

so a person making a search would HAVE To use B&N's or Amazon's proprietary cataloging number instead of the standardized ISBN.

Is there something that can be done about this? Or has GR decided to add both editions and eRetailers?

[Moloch]

I'm not sure what you mean, can't it be added if it's not present already? I add new books all the time

edit: staff answered (I didn't understand, sorry)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Smashwords is a publisher, so the data from there can be used to add a book record here. We do not currently have any import feed that brings those in from Smashwords (I don't think we ever have), but any librarian can add it manually.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*]

I was under the impression - at first - that we added editions and not eRetailers (with the exception of Amazon, of course). So (following that logic) I would have removed the B&N catalog number and corrected it with the standardized ISBN-13.

Now I understand that GR is doing eRetailer catalog numbers as well as ISBNs.