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message 1: by Edwina (new)

Edwina Book Anaconda | 27206 comments So ... I type in the ISBN of this innocent little romance novel and I get this

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

ummm, no, not my book. So I type in the title and get this

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...

What the heck ... ROFLOL

Can someone please figure out this mess and clean it up?
Here is my book info:

Winter's Heart
Cathryn Ladame
ISBN: 0-671-57055-2
Paperback
188 pages
Silhouette Romance #55
First printing January 1981
Cover here
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0340...
Back cover uploaded for summary.


message 2: by Alex (new)

Alex | 2736 comments Hello, both of those works are valid entries to the database, and Worldcat confirms that there are in fact two books with that ISBN, so I've set up your edition here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Please let me know if I've missed something.


message 3: by Edwina (new)

Edwina Book Anaconda | 27206 comments Can you please change the summary to this, taken from back cover.


WINTER'S PASSION, WINTER'S NIGHT

Maria Vernon had no idea who her rescuer was the night that she nearly froze to death in a sudden Maine blizzard. She had come to New England for a brief vacation before going home to her parents in the Northwest.

The last thing that she expected was to be snowbound in the isolated cabin of world-famous author Alec Gideon. Nor had she expected to find this brooding, difficult man so dangerously attractive.

He saved her from certain snowy death--but could she save herself from an ill-fated love and this man she couldn't resist?


message 4: by Alex (new)

Alex | 2736 comments Done, sorry about that.


message 5: by Edwina (new)

Edwina Book Anaconda | 27206 comments I am confused as to why you would create a new book when all that needed done to the book already there is to replace the summary.
Everything is correct about this book except that the summary is about Hillary Clinton.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...


message 6: by Alex (new)

Alex | 2736 comments The ISBN is different and valid, meaning that it is a separate edition of the same book. It seems the same publisher made two in the same year and used different ISBNs, one of which was later reused in that other book.


message 7: by Edwina (new)

Edwina Book Anaconda | 27206 comments But ... there is no book about Hillary Clinton titled Winter's Heart written by Cathryn Ladame for Silhouette Romances.


message 8: by Alex (new)

Alex | 2736 comments Oh dear, would you believe I hadn't even noticed the description was about Hillary Clinton? That's what I get for trusting Amazon to have the actual book's description under the book description heading...


message 9: by Edwina (new)

Edwina Book Anaconda | 27206 comments Never trust Amazon 100%, their site is full of mistakes. I've found many there and Worldcat also has mistakes.
Remember, it's all info being keyed in by humans and humans do make mistakes. :)


message 10: by Alex (new)

Alex | 2736 comments I literally laughed out loud when I realised, but it's a lesson well-learned, I assure you! :)


message 11: by Edwina (new)

Edwina Book Anaconda | 27206 comments Sorry if I seemed like I was being very combative with you but I just couldn't let it go and I couldn't understand why you weren't seeing the mess and why you didn't want to fix it.
Did you remove the alternate copy you created ?


message 12: by Alex (new)

Alex | 2736 comments I completely understand, of course you would react that way when there was such a huge and obvious error staring me in the face. Separately to the Hillary debacle, however, my explanation above is still valid; the two books are different editions of the same work with different ISBNs that are both valid, so both are to be retained. The ISBN that has been duplicated has been indicated in the description field of its book, all in accordance with GoodReads policy.


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