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message 1: by JSWolf (last edited Mar 30, 2010 06:49AM) (new)

JSWolf | 649 comments I'd like to have one of the editions of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo edited. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66...

I'm hoping the official URL I am giving is correct.

http://www.stieglarsson.com/The-Girl-...

The # of pages is incorrect for the eBook edition with ISBN of 9780307272119 because the only formats that have page numbers are ePub and PDF and the ePub edition has 424 pages.

I just noticed a few other issues as well...

The date of publish and Publisher are not correct. The date should be September 14, 2008 and the publisher is Knopf Publishing Group.

One final thing, the description could do with being changed. I've looked on a few sites that sell this eBook and the description is the same and is not what is in this listing...

A sensation across Europe—millions of copies sold

A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.

It's about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.

It's about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age--and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with it--who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism--and an unexpected connection between themselves.

It's a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.

Thanks!



message 2: by Cait (new)

Cait (tigercait) | 4988 comments Thanks for the information! I've changed the publication date and added the URL (yes, that's a good official URL!).

For the publisher, Vintage is an imprint of Knopf, so I left the more specific information in.

For the page count, it was specifically set to 480 by another librarian, so I've asked them to double-check their edition.


message 3: by JSWolf (new)

JSWolf | 649 comments Thank you. Did you notice my message edit to fix the description?


message 4: by JSWolf (new)

JSWolf | 649 comments I just took a look at this book on Borders and found that 480 pages is the page count for the hardcover edition.

http://www.borders.com/online/store/T...


message 5: by Cait (new)

Cait (tigercait) | 4988 comments I talked to the librarian who entered the original page count and they aren't positive about the source, so I've updated it to 424 to match your book in hand.

I've also updated the description to match the copy for this edition.

Thanks for catching all of this!


message 6: by JSWolf (new)

JSWolf | 649 comments Happy to help. Hope to be a librarian if I get approved. I applied on Friday.


message 7: by Bill (new)

Bill | 1 comments Scott, Paul. Day of the Scorpion, The. [Raj Quartet, Book 2:].
All listings of this title have the original publication date as 1970. I have a first American edition (New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc.) and the publication date is 1968. This predates the final two books, and came out before the group of four was collectively titled "The Raj Quartet." The British publication might have been earlier, but unlikely because of the dual copyright requirement at the time (simultaneous publication in US & a Bern convention country). Can supply a cover scan. Pre-ISBN.


message 8: by Cait (new)

Cait (tigercait) | 4988 comments Bill, are you comfortable adding your edition using the add a new book page? If so, you can add all of the details you have (publisher, date, page count, etc.) to create a new edition and then combine that edition with the others (or post back here with a link to the edition you created, and someone can combine it for you). This will set the original publication date for that book to 1968 and it will also help the GR catalog by adding your unique edition!


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