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How do you know if it is appropriate to add a short story to Goodreads?
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Nov 19, 2018 07:20AM
I read a short story for a challenge and I searched all over Goodreads but couldn’t find it. Could someone please let me know if I should add it?
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By itself...not in a collection or with any other material.
Was it published separately (with ISBN or ASIN or on the author website, but without a need to sign up for the subscription) or only as a part of the anthology or in the magazine?
Not valid:Stories published as part of a magazine issue - some issues have valid Goodreads records, so shelve that.
Stories published in an anthology - you can shelve the anthology though.
Stories needing subscriptions to read (including subscribing to an author's mailing list)
Stories that are incomplete
Valid:
Stories published on their own, e.g. on Kindle, Smashwords
Stories published as entire works on author or publisher website and NOT password gated (e.g. Tor.com)
Neither list is exhaustive, of course, but are the areas I come across most commonly.
The story I found was on its own but it was also part of an anthology
Can you be more specific about the format? Was it for sale as an e-book? Was it on a webpage? Provide a link?
If you don't need a password, the story is valid for the GR database.
I guess. I would never add them myself, but that is how I interpret the manual section.
I think all Tor stories are on GR. They’re usually pretty good and sometimes grow into novels. They also win Hugo’s.
Corinne wrote: "Many I looked up have an isbn and an asin edition so I can see why those would be fine.These really are valid GR listings? (no asin, no isbn)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2......"
Yes, those are valid entries on GR (the three you linked at least). They appear separately for free, no signup, password, etc. required.
Corinne wrote: "Thanks for responding to my examples.I guess I was wrongly lumping them into the e-magazine short stories we can read for free but aren't allowed to have on GRs."
e-magazines stories are not published separately, but as part of the magazine.
I can add links later but I’m on my phone right now
Could someone doublecheck my stories?
Slytherpuff wrote: "https://russian-crafts.com/russian-fo..."russian-crafts.com doesn't seem to be a publisher to me. The tale appears to have been taken from The Magic Ring: Russian Folk Tales from Alexander Afanasiev's Collection: https://books.google.com/books?id=82z...
Thank you. I didn’t think they would count but I wanted to check
