Link an author's Amazon and Goodreads profiles so books get auto-imported to correct place [site feature request]

[gem]

Currently the Amazon bots always dump books into the author profile with default spelling (ie, no extra spaces).

I'm hoping the Goodreads devs could implement a feature that links an author's Amazon profile directly to their Goodreads author profile so the Amazon bots will auto-import books to the correct profile instead of the default one. If Librarians and/or authors with verified profiles could set up this link, it would drastically cut down on the number of "move my book" requests.

Not every author on Amazon has an established profile, but for the ones that do, they appear to use an ASIN. For example, B07CZQY3KT is assigned to Alex Michaelides. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Alex-Mi...

I'm sure this feature would take some work for the Amazon and Goodreads dev teams to sort out, but it would be an enormous benefit to the site catalog and remove a lot of burden from authors and Librarians.

I made an Idea for this in the Goodreads Help/Ideas section. Please consider voting for it!

[Lisa]

This is a fantastic idea and would be so beneficial to all authors. It would cut down on a lot of extra checking back and forth and ensuring the reader gets the best experience.

I definitely support this! Thank you!

[S.]

This is some obvious logic and I'm, quite frankly, shocked this wasn't the initial set up

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

S. wrote: "This is some obvious logic and I'm, quite frankly, shocked this wasn't the initial set up"

Amazon didn't always own Goodreads.

But this does sound like it could be a good idea.

Edit: I'd forgotten about the two sites different ideas on punctuation. Probably wouldn't work.

[gem]

Carol She's So Novel ꧁꧂ wrote: "Edit: I'd forgotten about the two sites different ideas on punctuation. Probably wouldn't work."

If I'm understanding your edit correctly, the different punctuation wouldn't matter because the system would link to the Goodreads author ID. Using Alex Michaelides as an example again: his author ID is 17621440. You can see it in the URL for his profile.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17621440.Alex_Michaelides

You can also see it used in the changelog for his books. Open up this changelog link and search for "17621440" and you'll see the author_id flag.

For whatever reason, this field is hidden from Librarians on the book edit page. (Sidenote, I made a feature request post for this too: Allow Librarians to edit author via author ID [site feature request])

Anyway, in a perfect world a verified author could set up a link by simply providing their author ASIN and GR author ID. Then the bots would automagically import books in the correct profile and we'd be one step closer to achieving world peace. ;)

[K.]

This is a great idea! I feel like I have to constantly correct or add books, but this would save the librarians footwork.

[C.J.]

This is an excellent idea and initiative. Please do do it. Currently I have ongoing problems with Goodreads creating automatic versions of my books when I publish them on Amazon, but assigning them to the wrong author. Each time, I have to ask a Librarian to clean up the mess.

[Maggie]

Great, especially for those of us with that extra space, thank you!!

[Karen]

This is a great idea. Every time I have a new book come out, I have to ask the librarians to move it to my page instead of the wrong one. They're always super helpful, but I'd love to take the burden off them by having it linked.

[J.T.]

This a great idea and, frankly, a no brainer. I have to ask the librarians to move my books each time.

[Alexandra]

Yes! Please make this update. There are two authors with my name and every time I upload a book, I have to request an edit to get my book in my account. Thank you.

[St.]

This is an excellent idea and would save the librarians a lot of work. Please do it!

[Dobby]

Caveat in two words: Mad Bots.

The underlying codes are different. I can see this turning into a massive headache.