[COMPLETE] Merge Needed: Kissing Carrion

[Drace]

I believe there’s a merge that needs to be carried out on a Kindle edition of the book Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files, but there are some issues here that need to be resolved.

This edition of the book is out of print, and as far as my Wayback Machine skills have taken me, the Amazon page for it does not seem to have been archived when the edition was in print. Google results don’t come up with anything, and searching both ASINs on Amazon result in 404s.

As such: is there a way for the superlibrarians to figure out which edition has the ASIN that was actually in use when the book was in print?

Edition 1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Edition 2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

As a final note, based on an archived version of the publisher site, the first link has the correct cover art and the second link’s art is weirdly and incorrectly stretched vertically: https://web.archive.org/web/201603160...

[David]

I see no evidence suggesting either of those ASINs is invalid. It is not uncommon to have multiple valid Kindle editions.

[Drace]

Alright, just wanted to get confirmation on that. With the Goodreads bot's behavior surrounding ASINs, I figured it was worth asking. Thanks!

[Drace]

Reviving this thread because there actually is a merge needed now.

A while ago I spoke to Goodreads staff about separating the ChiZine Press-published ebook edition from the Kindle edition, since thanks to the bot disaster of fall 2024, the ISBNs had been assigned to a Kindle. They did so, but for some reason that is beyond me, rather than setting the book's art to the correct art taken directly from a link to an archive of the publisher's page that I included, they grabbed art from some random unknown source that included a weird overlay over it. I told them about this being an issue, and rather than just changing the art, Staff created an entirely new edition with the correct art and moved the ISBNs from the incorrect art edition to the correct one.

As such, this invalid-art ISBN-less edition and the valid ebook edition need to be merged.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... - Invalid edition with incorrect art
Kissing Carrion (ISBN 9781771483407) - Valid edition with correct art. However, the publication date is incorrect; it should be August 18, 2015.

[David]

"This status can't be changed as it has been set by an administrator".
You will need to go back to support. Luckily, it seems like the bogus cover edition was not shelved, which means you don't even need to request a merge - you can tell them this is an invalid edition.

[Drace]

Thanks for the heads up. Just want to confirm - did you correct the publication date for the valid edition? If not, no worries, I'll add a section for it in my cleanup thread for the book.

[David]

I corrected the publication date for the valid edition.
Good luck.

[Drace]

Thanks for all your help!