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The book links depend on ISBN (or ASIN), and Kindle editions don't use the same ISBN. I added a Kindle edition of your book (with the correct ASIN): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...The Amazon link will work from that edition's page.
Smashwords doesn't appear to recognize your ebook's ISBN: http://www.smashwords.com/books/searc... or your paperback's: http://www.smashwords.com/books/searc...
Noël wrote: "My novel has both ISBNs plus the Amazon Kindle ASIN but I cannot get the books links to work.The title is "Forbidden Lessons". The Goodreads link is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218..."
It worked for me rivka.
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Thanks so much rivka - your link has a working Amazon Kindle link. How do I get your link to be the link from my author profile, rather than the older link? Should I Combine Editions?Not sure why Smashwords doesn't recognise the ISBN. It has the ISBN-13 for the eBook: http://www.smashwords.com/books/searc... and that works as a search.
When you go to your book on Amazon, having used the Amazon search function to locate it, the url includes search terms for Amazon;s internal database, but they can prevent an url from working from the outside. Here is the url from one of my own books, taken (Ctrl-C) from said Amazon Search: http://www.amazon.com/Troll-ebook/dp/...
But if I want a live link to place in a post, or an ad, etc, I use:
http://www.amazon.com/Troll-ebook/dp/...
I kill all the stuff after my book's ASIN number and the link works just fine.
Noël wrote: "How do I get your link to be the link from my author profile, rather than the older link? Should I Combine Editions?"The editions have already been combined. You may wish to set the Kindle edition to be the default, which you would do by following these directions: http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/31...
It already seems to be the default - "This book is manually set to be the primary edition of this work" - thank you if it was you that fixed it! If I click the book in my author profile it now goes to that. If I click the book link from the top right of my Goodreads main page it goes to the old version, but never mind.Here's something strange though. Depending what account I use to access the link, the link buttons next to "Get a copy" are different.
Logged in as me:
Bookworld | Online stores | Amazon Kindle | download excerpt
Logged in as older account:
Bookworld | Online stores | Book Links | download excerpt
Logged out:
Bookworld | Online stores | Libraries | download excerpt
is there any reason for that?
Book links to other sites are customized on a per-user basis (each user chooses theirs), not a per-book basis. So yes, different accounts will see different links.
Aha thanks! So hopefully those that do use Kindles will be able to see the Kindle link.Thank you so much for all your help with this!
The title is "Forbidden Lessons". The Goodreads link is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
The Lulu link works fine and the iBooks link worked instantly.
The Kindle just won't work, I am not sure why. I added the Kindle link from the list. It goes to "We're sorry. The Web address you entered is not a functioning page on our site"
The Smashwords link just goes to the front of Smashwords (http://www.smashwords.com/books) there's no search or listing for my book.