Is this a book? (Insomnium album with short story)

[Tim]

I checked the list first to see what is considered a book and what isn't, but found no answer with regards to this example:

The Finnish metal band Insomnium recently released a new album (Winter's Gate). The limited edition contains the novella on which the album is based. See more info here: http://www.madsupply.com/en/shop/band...

"Winter's Gate is a concept album made up of one epic 40 minute song. The album is built around a short story, Winter's Gate (Talven portti in Finnish), written by vocalist & bassist Niilo Sevänen, recipient of numerous Finnish awards and nominations.

The compelling short story is about a group of Vikings who set out to find a fabled island west of Ireland, despite the treacherous winter drawing near. This Ltd Deluxe Artbook version includes the album in cd format, full Winter's Gate story with translations in English, Finnish and German, an audiobook read by Niilo Sevänen himself (in English) plus the album lyrics. The story is illustrated by the artist Teemu Tähkänen. The album is mixed by Dan Swanö at Unisound AB studio in Sweden."

Is it ok to add it to the database? If so, what should I pay attention to? In other words, which fields should be filled in, which shouldn't, ...?

As far as I know, there's no ISBN, no publisher, ... Then again, my Finnish is non-existant, which results in not understanding Finnish websites mentioning the orginal version of the short story.

[Paula]

Part of GR rules for establishing 'published' is the ability for a person to get the item. So if a story is published on an author website that the user has to create a user account to get the story or sign up to a mailing list that is not considered published by GR standards

So in my head if I can get the novella without buying the album or signing up for something then yes published otherwise no

[Arenda]

Looking at the "Not a book" section of the Librarian Manual, there is this sentence about what is a book: Note that any of these items packaged with a book count as a book, if the specific book edition with which they are packaged is not otherwise sold separately.

Among "these items" are movies (DVD/VHS) and video games, and music. If music means music albums, I guess it would be considered a book and can be added to Goodreads.

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