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Respectfully, it sure sounds like a rule to me. If GR wanted you to be "aware" that someone can read the whole story, if you upload the whole story, they would have said so. I suggest you're safer doing what the instructions say.Just my USD .02.
Eric
Eric wrote: "Respectfully, it sure sounds like a rule to me..."That's what I thought, but I was a little confused as, a while back, I thought I'd seen a few full stories uploaded, which made me doubt it.
Thanks for the reply!
I'm not sure if it's a rule -- I'd wait for staff to weigh in when back to work Monday. If it is a rule there are other writing areas you can upload to.
Samantha, you're welcome to upload the entire PDF if you'd like. The text on the upload page is more of a reminder to authors that the book won't automatically be cropped on our side.
I am new to doing uploading on Goodreads and can't seem to figure out how to upload a PDF on preview. When I tried, it went to my kindle and I didn't see any other choice. Has any of you had this problem? Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks so very much.
Gerry wrote: "I am new to doing uploading on Goodreads and can't seem to figure out how to upload a PDF on preview."Gerry, are you still having difficulty with this? If so, are you referring to the preview, which feeds in from Amazon, or the excerpt, which is loaded on the Goodreads side?
I finally was able to upload with the pdf file which came out nice and clear. Thank you for your help.Where does a book uploaded to preview go?
Where do I find books uploaded by other authors to read?
another ques: if I click on a "want to read" does that mean I commit to buying the book in order to read it?
"Want to read" does not commit you to buying the book. I use it all the time.
Gerry wrote: "...Where does a book uploaded to preview go? Goodreads' website, publicly accessible on that book's page. Under the bookcover image will be a read option.
Where do I find books uploaded by other authors to read?
You'll need to look at each individual book page; it's extremely rare that an author uploads to goodreads a full version of their copyrighted works. Even ones offering the book for free tend to do that on their usyal retail outlets, releasing to some open archive ( such as Project Gutenberg ) or their own websites/blogs. (Some sites like Amazon.com will have some additional restrictions on offering your copyrighted work for free, including making it exclusively available on Amazon -- see their help screens on KDP Select for policies).
another ques: if I click on a "want to read" does that mean I commit to buying the book in order to read it? ..."
As Lenita said, no; not committing to buying anything.
More notes about stuff you ddn't ask since you sounded new to goodreads:
Pretty much, goodreads has nothing to do with retail book sales beyond being a source of ad and purchase link revenue; goodreads doesn't even care if a book or edition is out if print or no longer available for sale. Think of it more as a library type of card catalog or inventory tracking than a bookstore.
"Want to Read" and any other shelves you use have no meaning beyond being how you choose to track/catalog books.
A significant number of members here use "Want to Read" to mean that they already bought the book but haven't read it yet. (Sometimes just means the book had a giveaway and they just forgot to uncheck the box that shelved it "want to read".) They create additional shelf names for their wishlist books or don't track them here.
Putting a book on the "Currently Reading" shelf adds some features like being able to post reading progresses, showing on home page, listing you as someone currently reading that book, etc. Putting a book on "Read" adds it to your statistics and counts towards this year's challenge (if you joined challenge). Every book you shelve must be on an exclusive shelf (you can add more exclusive and non-exclusive shelf names but goodrwads starts you out with "Read" "Want to Read" and "Currently Reading.") -- if you edit or batch edit "My Books" and forget to specify which exclusive shelf, goodreads uses "read."
ETA: You should probably shelve books you wrote at least by their genre (goodreads crowdsources a book's genre by related shelf names which adds book to several features like exploring by genre, new releases by genre, popular by genre ...). You can add a shelf name (fur example, "Mystery") two ways:, (1) on book page or search results click the bookshelf icon at right iof "want to read" and look at bottom for that option or (2) click "My Books" and scroll below existing shelves in leftmost column for the boldfaced "add shelf.". Once two people shelve the book in a genre, that puts book in a genre (author can be one if the two -- goodreads has a data cache that averages 10 minutes to 72 hours to populate changes like genre shelving through the site features and displays so won't likely show immediately).
If we're offering a story for free, is it alright to upload the full pdf via the "add a preview" on our dashboard? Or is there another way to do it? (or is it not allowed?)
I know the preview adding page remarks "Please only upload previews or excerpts. Do not upload the full content of your book." But I'm unsure and cannot find if this is meant as a rule or just to make sure you're aware the reader will be able to see the full thing if you upload the complete work instead of just the preview.
Thanks. :)