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"Authors" Needing help
I am co-author of Girl vs Ghost (Misdirected Magic Trilogy, #1). Right now Goodreads only shows the Kindle edition. Several days ago I added the hardcover, paperback and Nook editions and they seemed to be accepted, but today they have disappeared. I am approved as a librarian, but I'm brand new at it and not sure how to fix this. My ultimate goal is to have all four editions here, linked up, with each having exactly the same book-detail information and the ability for any review posted to any one version to automatically populate to all four versions.Any and all help greatly appreciated!
Kate McMurry
misdirectedmagic.com
katemcmurry.com
Kate,Maybe I misunderstand what you wrote, but I can see five editions of your book on Goodreads. From your author page, if you click on the book title, you will see an "Other Editions" section on the right side of the page. There are two ebooks, a hardcover edition, a paperback edition, and the Kindle one. You can see them here:
http://www.goodreads.com/work/edition...
A review posted for any of these editions will show up on the pages of all other editions.
If you want the book descriptions to be the same (an excerpt from the book is included only for some editions), then you will need to click on the edition you want to edit, then click on 'Edit details', and modify what you want. I could change that for you if you want/need help, but I'm not sure which version of the description you would like to keep.
Hey...you helping with "Chris?" ::grin::
lol. yup :)I've almost got it done... one is a single-name author, and one is spam.
Edit: er, I should say *we* almost have it done... I had noticed that one record mysteriously changed as I was opening it :)
::humming:: yeah...what's up with the spam? I'm not a superlibrarian, so I referred it...
Reply to message 1154Georgiana,
Thank you so much for your kind and helpful reply. Based on what you said, I see now what I did wrong. I went by what turned up under an initial search for "girl vs ghost," which only shows the Kindle version (which was the very first version to appear on this site). I think mentally I was expecting what happens on Amazon and Barnes & Noble when I search on "girl vs ghost," a listing of all editions. When you mentioned the Other Editions menu, I suddenly remembered to look off to the right under the Kindle edition product page, and just as you said, I found three editions. (I admit again, freely, I'm very new at this. I apologize for my confusion!)
There is one more issue I've struggled with: I noticed that for the edition I set up for the Nook ebook version of Girl vs Ghost that the Goodreads system only allows me to enter a Kindle ASIN or an ISBN. The Nook ebook has an ISBN 9781613400036, but B&N does not use it, instead using its BNID 2940012412355. I first tried putting the BNID under ASIN but then when afterward I checked out the link from that version to B&N it only took me to the main search engine. So then I went back into that entry and deleted out what I had done and entered under "isbn 13" the Nook ebook's ISBN 9781613400036 and saved.
After I did this, I noticed two different editions of the B&N Nook edition were somehow created, instead of one corrected edition:
(1) An edition with the ASIN 2940012412. This is a truncated version of the B&N BNID 2940012412355 which, as stated, I had entered under ASIN. I deleted this erroneous edition. It went away, then 5 minutes later, I noticed it had somehow recreated itself. **I need help getting rid of this.**
(2) An edition with isbn: 001241235X (I have no idea what this number is) and isbn 13: 2940012412355, which is the B&N BNID. In that edition, I deleted the weird number 001241235X, deleted the BNID 2940012412355 under isbn 13 and replaced it with the true ISBN 9781613400036. Then under the portion of book details called "Edition," I entered "Nook BNID 2940012412355". These edits immediately showed up on the screen and looked great, and this Edition also displayed under Other Editions when I went to the page for a different edition. However, when I wanted to go back to the Nook product page afterward by clicking on its icon under the Other Editions menu, I got this error message: "Oops - we couldn't find that book." Also, under Other Editions, I currently see displayed icons for 4 other editions, but the words above it say "Other Editions (3)."
Clearly, I have really messed up the Nook edition entry. In fact, at this point I'm wondering if I should just give up on creating a B&N Nook edition at all because I can't enter the BNID and entering an ISBN for an ebook seems to create major problems. It's not the end of the world if I can't list it, because if someone wants to buy the book and from either the PB or HC edition pages chooses B&N as a venue, either product page on B&N displays all three editions, PB, HC and Nook. However...if you can somehow make the Nook edition entry work, that would certainly be an excellent option.
Finally, I would really appreciate it if you could check and see if for the Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover editions:
1. They all have the same title: Girl vs Ghost (Misdirected Magic Trilogy, #1)
2. They all have the same Description, beginning with "Girl vs Ghost is a young-adult, paranormal, romantic comedy suitable for all ages," and ending with this last sentence of a Chapter One excerpt, "'Isabel, calm down. This guy may be a home invader, but he's not the kind you think.'"
3. Everything else about the three editions looks as if it has been done properly.
As far as I can tell, all three of these issues are okay, but at this point I'm afraid what I'm seeing isn't what Goodreads is actually registering, and I'd love to be sure.
Thank you very, very much!
Kate McMurry
misdirectedmagic.com
katemcmurry.com
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Reply to message 1167: by rivkaRivka,
Thank you very much for your help.
The Nook Edition information all came from me. That's why I was hoping I could delete what I myself created. The only Edition that is on the Goodreads site that I didn't enter myself is the Kindle edition, and I only corrected the format of the series information and the Description for that. I didn't touch the ASIN.
By the way, I'm still seeing this weird Edition displayed:
Girl vs Ghost: Misdirected Magic Book 1 (ebook)
isbn: 001241235X, 2940012412355
Format: ebook, 0 pages
Am I understanding you to say that you did delete it and it will take 48 hours for it to go away?
Also by the statement, "I think I got all the editions fixed," are you saying that all my editions now look consistent? Or are you referring to the fact that there is now a working B&N edition that I can access? Or both?
I'm really grateful for the B&N Nook edition!
Thank you very much!
Kate McMurry
misdirectedmagic.com
katemcmurry.com
Mod
rivka wrote: "That "weird edition" is what B&N ebooks look like when imported."I'm confused as to how this edition could have been imported from B&N when: (1) I didn't import it. (2) It has ISBN information that does not exist anywhere on B&N (which gets its info from Ingram). It contains out-of-the-blue, made-up ISBN's that don't exist on any edition of Girl vs Ghost. (3) It is full of HTML gibberish in the description. (4) There is now an alternative Nook version with the real ISBN that is not messed up.
In short, that "weird edition" is a major mess, and I'd really, really like to get rid of it. Can it possibly be deleted?
I'm not going to start messing with it, since it looks like it has plenty of fingers in the pie, but that "weird" edition (for lack of a better descriptor), has an invalid isbn, but the isbn 13 brings up the ebook, on B&N.
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It looks like I can remove the 001241235X without causing reimporting issues, as long as the -- correct for B&N -- 2940012412355 ISBN-13 remains. And I set the description on that edition to the default, so it's the same as the others.
Self-edited.http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Anoynmous.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
None.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Doyle.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Heather wrote: "Doyle."I don't know if others have worked on Doyle, but the two books that are there now seem to be a single-named author. However, there's one quote left that looks like it comes from Angel (of the Buffy empire). I don't know enough about Angel to know 1) if there are books based on the series; 2) if there's a character named Doyle.
If that's a legitimate quote from a book, it can be changed to the proper *author*. If it's not from a book (and/or if there are no books for the Angel series), it should be deleted, then "Doyle" will be done.
If anyone knows about the quote, I can fix it. Or someone else can fix it and all will be done.
Reply to 1171 & 1172:Beth, thanks for your input! After reading that you were able to get the Nook version of Girl vs Ghost to come up on B&N with its assigned ISBN 9781613400036 (which B&N doesn't use), I tried about 5 times to search at B&N on that ISBN, but nothing ever came up from my searches, not even an error message.
Rivka, thank you again for your help! There is proof for what you say in this manner: When I clicked on the link to buy the Nook version of Girl vs Ghost at B&N when I was on the product page for the "weird edition" which now has only the B&N BNID 2940012412355 listed as the ISBN-13, I was taken directly to the Nook edition product page on B&N (I tried this multiple times and it worked each time). In contrast, when I did the same thing for the version using the Nook edition's ISBN 9781613400036 (which B&N refuses to use or display on its website), I was taken to the main search engine on B&N and an error message displayed: "Sorry. We did not find any results. Please try another search." (This also happened multiple times.)
Based on this test, I decided to do the following: (1) I deleted the Nook edition version with ISBN 9781613400036 since the most important thing would be for it to provide a workable link to the Nook edition on B&N, and it failed to do this. (2) I edited the version listing B&N's BNID 2940012412355 as the ISBN-13 to make it just like the PB, HC and Kindle editions for its product information: (a) I made the format for the title conform to Goodreads's standard which the other three versions have correct, "Girl vs Ghost (Misdirected Magic Trilogy, #1)." (b) Under the "Edition" section which displays next to "ebook," I added: "Nook BNID 2940012412355," to clarify that this is a Nook version, which wasn't otherwise apparent. (c) I added under "url" the book's website, http://www.misdirectedmagic.com/, which the other editions have. (d) I edited the book description to contain all the information that the other editions' product pages have (and which B&N has on its website for the Nook edition) that this edition lacked. I set this description as the default.
I hit "save," and I got the message: "The book data was saved." I presume from what I've read here I won't know for 48 hours if this worked, though? If this works, then all will, finally, be well, so my fingers are crossed.
Kate McMurry
misdirectedmagic.com
katemcmurry.com
Mod
"Nook BNID 2940012412355" is confusing and duplicative. I made the edition just "Nook".
rivka wrote: >>That depends where you are looking. If you look on the page of each edition, the changes are visible immediately.<<So you think all is well, then? Everything took?
>>"Nook BNID 2940012412355" is confusing and duplicative. I made the edition just "Nook"<<
Ah, so that's how that happened. I thought somehow the site itself did it. Ha. I see what you mean, though. It does look better.
Thanks, Rivka, for all your help!
Kate McMurry
misdirectedmagic.com
katemcmurry.com
Mod
Looks like it to me. :)
What a relief, Rivka!Thanks again!!!
Kate McMurry
misdirectedmagic.com
katemcmurry.com
Tiffany wrote: I don't know if others have worked on Doyle, but the two books that are there now seem to be a single-named author. However, there's one quote left that looks like it comes from Angel (of the Buffy empire). I don't know enough about Angel to know 1) if there are books based on the series; 2) if there's a character named Doyle.
If that's a legitimate quote from a book, it can be changed to the proper *author*. If it's not from a book (and/or if there are no books for the Angel series), it should be deleted, then "Doyle" will be done.
If anyone knows about the quote, I can fix it. Or someone else can fix it and all will be done.
The Doyle quote is indeed from the Angel character Doyle (Season 1, Episode 9: "Hero"), from a commercial he's recording. The videotape of that commercial gets replayed by characters in the season 3 episode "Birthday," and in the season 5 episode, "You're Welcome."
Searching the GR database doesn't give me novelizations of any of those episodes (though apparently there's High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! of "You're Welcome.")
Anony mous http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
My first foray into Anony mous led to this odd list of possible authors:
http://www.goodreads.com/search?query...
This was followed immediately by:
http://www.goodreads.com/search?query...
My tiny brain hurts & I'm going to bed now. :-{
Abcdarian wrote: "Anony mous http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
My first foray into Anony mous led to this odd list of possible authors:
http://www.goodreads.com/search?query......"
Weird. The Traffic Books actually look like the way they're entered into Amazon, and I can't find them anywhere else. If you enter the name of the book into Amazon, it brings up a bunch of editions, all with different authors or editors. It makes my brain hurt, too.
Abcdarian wrote: "Anony mous http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
My first foray into Anony mous led to this odd list of possible authors:
http://www.goodreads.com/search?query......"
Ugh...same for http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_nos...
Elizabeth wrote: "Tiffany wrote: I don't know if others have worked on Doyle, but the two books that are there now seem to be a single-named author. However, there's one quote left that looks like it comes from An..."
Thanks Elizabeth!
Hey all... I need some advice/a second opinion --I've been staring at the authors Anthony Curtis and Tony Curtis for about a week now, and just when I thought I knew what to do with them, I'm now having doubts.
Okay, "Anthony," "Tony," and "Curtis" are pretty common(ish) names. So, I'm thinking we have a few authors all jumbled together between the two profiles. The one I was working on specifically is an author who writes books about antiques. He has a bunch of books, but a lot (the majority) of them don't have covers. The ones that *do* have covers with an author's name on them mostly say "Anthony Curtis"; however, doing a random spot check of the ones that are currently listed under "Tony Curtis" do come up in WorldCat and the LoC as Tony. *sigh*
I was originally going to move all of the "Tony" ones over to "Anthony" (since that's the more popular name on the covers), but with WorldCat and LoC showing more under "Tony" than under "Anthony," I'm confused again. Should I go with the covers that I have and change them to "Anthony", or go with the majority of the listings in WorldCat/LoC and go with "Tony" (which I would disambiguate from the actor)? If there weren't so many Anthony/Tony Curtises, this might be easier, but since there are so many, I'm trying to make sure they don't all get jumbled with other authors.
*sigh* Help? Thoughts?
My gut says to make them match the cover, and add what worldcat has, as a secondary author, to cover all bases.
I've sorted out two Tony Curtis poets, one Welsh, one Irish, also the actor, the business books & a small variety of leftovers still unsure (Tony^^^^^Curtis), so everything left on the Tony^Curtis page is the antiques guy. (You can see them all on the similar names list: http://www.goodreads.com/author/simil....)
Okay, Abcdarian, you and I are now running into each other trying to fix up the Anthony Curtises. I think we've just about got them, but I don't want us screwing each other up.
s.http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
annonomous.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Kyle.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Many.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
My.http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Laura.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Anonymous. is back again.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
desconocido.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Dani.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Looks like someone already got "Anonymous" and the best I can find is that the remaining "Dani" books (I don't know how many there were to begin with) are a single-name author, so that's done, too.
Heather wrote: "annonomous.http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Many.
http://www.goo..."
And "annonomous" and "Many" have both been cleared already.
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