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Mr. Softee (Dev Haskell Mystery, #2)
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Andréa (fernandie) | 152 comments Mike Faricy's book Mr. Softee has been re-released with the new title Mr. Swirlee (and a new cover). Unfortunately, the new Mr. Swirlee-titled Kindle edition was posted to the original Mr. Softee-titled ASIN.

When Mr. Swirlee editions were added, one was listed as a "Kindle edition" but used an ISBN13. (The ISBN10, ISBN13, and ASIN are all printed inside the book.) I saw this edition first, and so switched the format to ebook and updated the rest of the information.

But then I found the other Mr. Swirlee edition, which had no format listed, listed the page count from the new Mr. Swirlee Kindle edition, but included a Mr. Softee publication date. It lists no ASIN or ISBN, but its data was pulled from Onix Smashwords.

So, I don't know if the Kindle-labeled edition with the ISBN should remain a Kindle edition, and be updated to be the ACE for the re-used ASIN, while the other edition becomes the ISBN-labeled ebook, or if the edition with the ISBN should be listed as the ebook edition and the no-format, no identifying number edition should become the Kindle ACE for the re-used ASIN.

Sorry it's confusing!


message 2: by Z-squared (last edited Aug 19, 2014 01:21PM) (new)

Z-squared | 8575 comments When books are reissued with new covers/ titles but old ASINs or ISBNs, we make ACEs (as I'm sure you know). I saw a blank edition with the new cover, and I made it into the kindle ACE (and added 2013 as the pub date to be consistent with cover).

As for the edition originally marked kindle with an ISBN13, changing it to ebook was absolutely right, so no changes needed there.

The rest of the editions look OK to me.

I'm not sure I follow the second half of your post, though. I suggest you look over the changes I made and see if there are any more that need to be done.


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