How to handle invented box sets or collections

[Krazykiwi]

How do we handle "invented" box sets/collections? This is an Amazon marketplace listing of 8 books that a vendor is selling, so it has an ASIN, but those books were never properly published or sold together.

My instinct is to NAB it, but it has several ratings and reviews (possibly related to the curious fact that if you google the tile of the listing, despite it having "pbks" in the title implying it's paperbacks, you get a ton of links to download sites and pdfs.)

Is it actually ok for us to NAB something that has reviews, if we're absolutely sure it is not really a book, or should we just pass this kind of mess off to staff to handle?

While this particular one is a random marketplace box of books, what about when people "create" a box-set for a series. I've seen that happen a couple of times, where people wanted to put a series-wide review and there wasn't a real box-set to do it on. Handle that the same way?

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I thought Amazon stopped assigning ASINs to non-Kindle books?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Krazykiwi wrote: "Is it actually ok for us to NAB something that has reviews, if we're absolutely sure it is not really a book, or should we just pass this kind of mess off to staff to handle?"

In general, if you're not sure, please flag or email.


Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I thought Amazon stopped assigning ASINs to non-Kindle books?"

No. However, Goodreads stopped importing such items some time back.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

rivka wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I thought Amazon stopped assigning ASINs to non-Kindle books?"

No. However, Goodreads stopped importing such items some time back. "

Thanks, I thought I remembered there was something about it.