Please delete this book! (pt. 6) Showing 101-150 of 1,285

[Foppe]

Quite so. I had expected the bloody thing to merge quickly, though :P
Anyway, it's now been combined, so feel free :)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Zap!

[Elizabeth]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27...
Was manually added with almost zero info. I merged it (after correcting the spelling of the author's name) but apparently it needs a super to delete it because of how many reviews it has.

[Lisa]

Elizabeth, Thanks. I got it.

[Dionisia]

Greetings!

The following "editions" have been merged and need to be deleted by a superlib:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...

Thanks!

[Lisa]

Somebody got them, Dionisia.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Oops! Sorry, that was me.

[Eva-Marie]

Please delete:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36...

The member added this with a lot of info wrong but we figured it out. Thanks!

[Melody]

it's gone

[Eva-Marie]

Thanks Melody- she entered the wrong title AND author! :)

[Noelle]

What exactly is a super Librarian?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Librarians who have been given some additional powers.

[Noelle]

rivka wrote: "Librarians who have been given some additional powers."

"Powers"....lol. Thanks.

[Foppe]

Couture.Dior.Megan wrote: "rivka wrote: "Librarians who have been given some additional powers."

"Powers"....lol. Thanks."

'Responsibilities' is such an overused word.

[Noelle]

Foppe wrote: "Couture.Dior.Megan wrote: "rivka wrote: "Librarians who have been given some additional powers."

"Powers"....lol. Thanks."

'Responsibilities' is such an overused word."

I can imagine. ☻

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Heh. I actually meant abilities, rather than responsibilities. Although the two do go together. ;)

[Elizabeth]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
Was manually entered with almost zero info. Needs a super to delete b/c of so many reviews.

[Lisa]

Elizabeth, It's gone. Thanks.

[Foppe]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67... < haven't the faintest which book this entry should be combined with, probably not the main entry, as it isn't a french title, but there is no other information present to make the determination, sadly). Anyway, please use your SLib discretion to decide the matter, to whomever reads this first ;)

[Melody]

found one it looked close to and got rid of the empty edition you found.

[Lindig]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

This book is already listed separately. This listing has 0 reviews etc and is shown as "unbound" (whatever that means). One person has marked it to-read. Should this be deleted, or merged, or what?

[Lisa]

Lindig,

I combined the two editions. Edit: and I added the series info to this edition.

According to Google Books and Amazon, this edition is a book.

[Lindig]

Lisa wrote: "Lindig,

I combined the two editions. Edit: and I added the series info to this edition.

According to Google Books and Amazon, this edition is a book."

Thanks, Lisa.

[Paula]

Needs a super to delete please:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55...

[Foppe]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12... < please remove. Duplicate of the most-read penguin edition, apparently with the same cover

[Melody]

Paula and Foppe, got them both.

[Pejman]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
This Book has 3 same editions. they are all the same I am sure. please delete two of them.

[Melody]

done

[Foppe]

please delete http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18... (and re-merge edition into the set.)

also delete: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62... < Apparently none of the readers care what translation or edition they've read, so I guess it should just be merged?

[Melody]

Got them both.

[Mayona]

Please delete this one - no info, strange isbn.
This one should be deleted too - looks the same as this one.
These two have no info: here and here.
Thanks!

[Melody]

Mayona - I got most them. Looks like someone else had already gotten the last one. We were probably working on it at the same time.

[Mayona]

Melody and someone else, thanks!)

I'm a bit confused with http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...
Looks the same as this book, but with a wrong book cover. I think the first one should be deleted and the last one – combined with these editions of The Great Gatsby.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Yeah, looks like someone couldn't find the right cover and sub'd. Taking care of.

[Dave]

Please delete this book: "Cloud Over Columbine: How the Press Got It Wrong and the Police Let It Happen." There are two editions listed--neither exist.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

This book was planned for 2002, but never published.
Random House bought the book (from me), got an ISBN, notified Amazon, but then canceled it (and shut down the AtRandom imprint) before publication. We never even finished editing it. The book does not exist.

(Just so there is no confusion, Twelve/Hachette DID publish my book with just the title "Columbine" this April, and all those editions should remain. Whatever you do, don't delete them. I separated them from the two imaginary "Cloud Over Columbine" books.)

Thanks.

[Lisa]

Dave,

Thanks!

The problem is it's listed at Amazon with its ISBNs:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url...

so, if we delete it, it will simply automatically return to the database.

Rivka, Everybody, How do we handle these situations?

Sorry if it's in the manual but I have no time to look now and I don't recall anything.

Can Dave ask Amazon to remove it, and then we can remove it here?

Thanks.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Lisa wrote: "Can Dave ask Amazon to remove it, and then we can remove it here?"

That would be best if possible. If not, I'll pass it along to Jessica; there is an established procedure.

[Dave]

rivka wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Can Dave ask Amazon to remove it, and then we can remove it here?"

That would be best if possible. If not, I'll pass it along to Jessica; there is an established procedure."

Thanks. Hachette has asked Amazon for months to remove it, to no avail, so that's not going to work. Amazon can be trying that way. (Maybe I have to go back to the people at Random to get it off--though the editor from Random is now my editor at Twelve/Hachette.)

This must happen all the time with canceled books. I wonder how many phantom books are out there.

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This isn't the right thread, but since I'm here, can i ask a related question?

My actual book, COLUMBINE was published simultaneously in hardcover in the US by Twelve/Hachette, and UK/Commenwealth in paperback by Old Street.

On Amazon.com, only the harcover comes up, since that's all that's in the U.S. (At Amazon.co.uk, you'll find both.)

Here on goodreads, both show up, and I think readers will assume it's out in paperback. It's not in the U.S., and won't be until at least next year. Is there a clear way to indicate on the paperback that it's only in the UK? How about in the "published" field: "April 20th 2009 by Old Street Publishing--ONLY IN UK"?

Here is the link to the paperback in question:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Dave wrote: "I wonder how many phantom books are out there."

Bunches!

[Cait]

Dave wrote: "This book was planned for 2002, but never published."

Usually in these cases a note in the book description suffices -- in fact, it can be a good way to communicate to readers that the book of which they have heard rumors is not in fact available.

"Is there a clear way to indicate on the paperback that it's only in the UK?"

Currently the publisher field shows only the name and not the country of the publisher* -- so, no, there's no "top" field that will show this information. You could add "UK version" to the book description, or you could encourage your US publisher to get an ISBN for their paperback publication (this is often done well in advance of actual publication) so that an entry for the US paperback will show up here with a future publication date. (You could manually make an entry for the US paperback, but you'd have to remember to merge it with the official version when an ISBN comes available.)

* This has been mentioned before, I think; you could bring publisher countries up in the Feedback group as a possibile feature.

[This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For]

If the book was never published, is that a cause for labeling it as Not a Book? I can't recall if we've used that strategy in the past or not.

[Lisa]

Michael, I think we have done that, but I don't know if I'm completely comfortable with that solution if there's a better one.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For wrote: "I can't recall if we've used that strategy in the past or not."

We have, generally by specific author request.

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

Please delete this edition. The most popular edition has the same cover, so it should be okay to just delete.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Poof!

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

One of these days I'll learn to just leave an open topic until I'm done...

Here's another one.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Zap!

[Susanna]

Please delete this edition. It is the same edition as this one. Thanks!

[Lisa]

Susanna, Thanks. I got it.

[Ash]

Please delete this book, I Chose to Stay and Fight, it was an error on my behalf, I apologize for the inconvenience.