I need clarification!

[Donna]

OK, I am still trying to get the author name policy straight. This book Icebound, by Dean Koontz was originally published under a different title with an author pseudonym Prison of Ice, by David Axton. My question is on the new editions where the cover says "Icebound by Dean Koontz" do I still put the pseudonym as the primary author or should it be as on the new cover. . . In that case would the pseudonym be left off completely or added as secondary author?

One other question: Would an abridged audio version be combined with the unabridged editions or should it be separated since the text would not be the same?

Thanks so much for your support!
~Donna

[Martin]

The primary author should be the name under which the book was first published, this will be primary author for all subsequent editions. If the book is later published under a different author name the new name is given as secondary author
https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...

I don't know much about audiobooks so my opinion on the second question wouldn't be of any use.

[Arenda]

Donna wrote: "Would an abridged audio version be combined with the unabridged editions or should it be separated since the text would not be the same?"

Abridged audiobooks should be combined with the unabridged editions.

[Tawnya]

Arenda wrote: "Donna wrote: "Would an abridged audio version be combined with the unabridged editions or should it be separated since the text would not be the same?"

Abridged audiobooks should be combined with ..."

But they are not the same book. You are losing 3/4 of the book. When I saw just how much of a difference there was I was flabbergasted. I would be ticked off to purchase an audiobook expecting it to be a telling of the 400 page tome and instead having it be a 100 page novelette.

[Arenda]

Here are links from the Former Librarian Moderator, all confirming that abridged editions should be combined:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[gem]

Sort of interesting that abridged and unabridged audiobooks should be combined, but dramatized adaptations are kept separate.

[Donna]

Martin wrote: "The primary author should be the name under which the book was first published, this will be primary author for all subsequent editions. If the book is later published under a different author name..."

Thanks Martin! So even if the title changes, the author still stays as the original publishing?

[Donna]

Arenda wrote: "Donna wrote: "Would an abridged audio version be combined with the unabridged editions or should it be separated since the text would not be the same?"

Abridged audiobooks should be combined with ..."

Thanks Arenda!

[Donna]

Tawnya wrote: "Arenda wrote: "Donna wrote: "Would an abridged audio version be combined with the unabridged editions or should it be separated since the text would not be the same?"

Abridged audiobooks should be..."

Tawnya, I know! that's what I was thinking too. But I guess as long as it is marked as unabridged, you know it's basically the same story.

[Donna]

gem wrote: "Sort of interesting that abridged and unabridged audiobooks should be combined, but dramatized adaptations are kept separate."

Gem, I agree, that's why I am confused sometimes! My guess is that it is because the adaptation is usually by a different author, but abridgments are by the same author as the original?

[gem]

Donna wrote: "Gem, I agree, that's why I am confused sometimes! My guess is that it is because the adaptation is usually by a different author, but abridgments are by the same author as the original?"

It was my understanding that dramatized adaptations are meant to be separate editions because they could modify/remove parts of the original text. For example, instead of the narrator reading a line like "the rain drummed on the roof," the adaptation might remove that line and replace it with audio of rainfall.

But it seems that same logic of removing content does not apply to abridged/unabridged. However, it's entirely possible that I'm wrong on why adaptations are meant to be different editions.