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Jul 19, 2019 04:44PM
My book is available for pre-order on several sites, including Amazon, but none of the links work. Can this be fixed?
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Buy links are edition specific.The edition you linked to is an ebook with ISBN which is not sold on Amazon. Amazon only sells Kindle editions with ASIN.
The Amazon button works on the below Kindle edition.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Thank you so much, Melanie. I'm a little confused by all the editions. If I search my book by my name, I only come up with the ebook with the ISBN. I didn't know there were different editions of my novel on Goodreads. Should there be different editions of my pre-order book on Goodreads, or should there only be the Kindle edition?
Whatever people can read should be on here.
The "editions" are just different formats that are all combined together. The ebook with the ISBN is your default version which is why it comes up in the search. If you'd rather have the Kindle edition be your default, you can set it with these directions:https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...
Thanks so much! Goodreads librarians are awesome!
Hi, I have another question. After I changed the edition to the Kindle version that links to Amazon, all of the lists the book was on dropped off. Should I combine all of the editions to fix this problem?
The editions are properly combined already. The book pages are heavily cached and can take 1-2 days to update completely. The book is still on those lists; it just doesn't show yet.
Hi Emily,It's been 4 days, and the lists don't show up, although it seems the book is still on the lists. Any ideas why?
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But neither edition have the lists.
M.A. wrote: "But neither edition have the lists."Which lists are missing, because these are the lists attached to the ebook edition:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/book/4...
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Thank you. That edition doesn't link to any preorder pages. Is there any reason for me not to combine the editions so that it is on lists and also easy to pre-order?
M.A. wrote: "Thank you. That edition doesn't link to any preorder pages. Is there any reason for me not to combine the editions so that it is on lists and also easy to pre-order?"The way you suggest them to be combined isn't possible I'm afraid. If by easy to pre-order you mean for the user to click Amazon from the Goodreads ebook edition, then no, it will not go straight to the book on Amazon the same way it does from the Kindle edition.
If the ebook is available through other stores (Google play, Kobo, etc) then it will work for users who click through those buy links. You will just have to make the decision whether to keep the Kindle edition as the default. I did not realize lists are edition specific until mentioned above.
