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Should excerpts be added to NOT A BOOK
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Dori
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Sep 20, 2010 02:30PM
I found some odd "books" in the db. These two books are excerpts apparently. At the very least, I don't think they should be combined with the actual books (the second one is), but I'm thinking they should actually be added to NOT A BOOK. Before I do anything, I'd like to get some feedback.
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There are a lot of these 1 chapter sneak peek ebook things. I keep finding them combined with the full version of books and separating them out so people don't think they're a full book. I personally would like to NAB them but haven't because I haven't seen where samples should or shouldn't be NAB. So I'd like to know as well.
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2) Not sure about the NAB issue. I see both sides. I guess one question is whether anyone is going to deliberately shelve/rate/review these? I would think not.
How do those get automatically imported without an ISBN?
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I've never been able to get an ASIN to import automatically.
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I guess I haven't kept track of whether it's a kindle or non-kindle ASIN.
rivka wrote: "I guess one question is whether anyone is going to deliberately shelve/rate/review these? I would think not."I think people would, actually -- I know I've picked up some "preview of whatever" things that I'd want to talk about and remember for later ("this looked really interesting from X angle, but I worry that they're going to go with Y", that kind of thing).
It seems analogous to the way Kindle sometimes publishes short stories alone; in fact, I know a few cases where novels grew out of short stories and those short stories were later republished alone as tie-ins!
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rivka wrote: "If people really are using them, then I think they should stay. But I recommend Librarian's Notes and also some sort of note at the beginning of the summary."Okay, I'll do that for the two I know of and anymore that I see.
I see the original descriptions are gone but nothing has taken their place.
willaful wrote: "I see the original descriptions are gone but nothing has taken their place."Thanks for reminding me. The original descriptions were not descriptions at all, but reviews. I forgot to go back and put in a real description for them. They are done now.
Thanks Dori. I hate seeing reviews on a book page that obviously don't belong! Of course some people still won't notice they're only excerpts, but we can't fix everything. ;-)
willaful wrote: "I hate seeing reviews on a book page that obviously don't belong!"Me, too :)
