Question: are web-only pdfs a valid book?

[Sarah]

I'm looking specifically at this record, Kukulkan, which is for a pdf that is available on the author's web site, but is not a published work, except that it did appear in a magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 127, Issue 12, December 2007 (hence the cover image), which is already on Goodreads.

[Olga]

Short stories published only in a magazine aren’t allowed on Goodreads.

Short stories published online may be added if they are available on the author site.
Can you link to this story on the author site? I couldn't find it.

[Tal]

Olga wrote: "Short stories published online may be added if they are available on the author site.
Can you link to this story on the author site? I couldn't find it."

The author website has been redesigned since this free story was first published 15+ years ago. However the original book page url was still in the logs (http://www.skcastle.com/?page_id=22) and the wayback machine had archived that page showing it was freely available for many years and still is via the archive.

https://web.archive.org/web/201604131...

[Olga]

I'd leave it in the database. Free ebooks are eligible.