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Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell
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message 1: by Claudia (new)

Claudia | 3 comments Hello Librarians!

I am currently reading this series https://www.goodreads.com/series/1214.... As you notice all these books are new editions published since 2011. For some reason when this series was created book #8 has the old edition listed in the series, can you please fix that? The correct edition is this one https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..., which was published this year.


message 2: by Renske (new)

Renske | 12223 comments We can't change that, the most popular edition the book is shown there.


message 3: by Claudia (new)

Claudia | 3 comments This one https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... is not part of the new edition. If you remove it as part of the series won't the new one be the most popular and show correctly?


message 4: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31493 comments Claudia, Renske is correct (as always) and we wouldn't remove a correct edition just so the series page looks pretty.

The author is able to decide which edition is the default and if he was concerned, he would change it.


message 5: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Well, the author is not a Goodreads member. Nonetheless, the default edition stays as is -- until more users shelve a different edition, at least.


message 6: by Claudia (new)

Claudia | 3 comments Sandra and Rivka,

I think you misunderstood me! It's not a matter of looking pretty.

This book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... is part of the wrong series now. That's what I'm saying. The correct series for this book is this one https://www.goodreads.com/series/5985..., which is already a part of. But it's book 11. They didn't number the books in the first editions.

Please read this page: http://hellblazer.wikia.com/wiki/Rake...

As you can see here the title "Rake at the Gates of Hell" was published in 2003 and it belongs between the "Damnation's Flame" and "Son of Man". It has ISBN: 1-40120-002-8 and collects issues Hellblazer #78-#83. This one belongs to the series I just mentioned above (https://www.goodreads.com/series/5985...).

Now we have another title. It's called "Hellblazer, Vol. 8: Rake at the Gates of Hell".
It was published in June 2014. The ISBN is: 1-40124-749-0 and collects Hellblazer #72–83 and Heartland #1. It belongs to this series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/1214....

Can you understand my point?
These two books have minor differences and almost the same title. And that's the confusion. The 2003 edition isn't Vol.8. It's simply: "Rake at the Gates of Hell". But because of this mistake, I imagine is being added to the wrong series.

I understand that changing default editions and titles is not your decision to make, I just wanted to point it out.

Thank you for replying!
Keep up the good work!

Claudia :)


message 7: by Z-squared (last edited Oct 05, 2014 05:31PM) (new)

Z-squared | 8575 comments Two things with nearly identical names were incorrectly combined. I have fixed things now, except I can't drag and drop the book on the old series page to the number 11 spot because I'm on a mobile. Could somebody do that for me? Thanks!

https://www.goodreads.com/series/5985...


Scratch that, there are cover issues. Resorting now.


message 8: by Z-squared (new)

Z-squared | 8575 comments Ok. NOW it's fixed. Claudia, you should probably doublecheck that the correct editions are attached to each series, I'm not a Hellblazer expert.


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