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My Kindle ebook needs ASIN How do I add? How do I merge duplicates too?
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Our problem though is that people can still not 'buy' the book! The link goes nowhere. We put in ISBN and ASIN. What's wrong? We even sent a message to the company where we bought the ISBN, asking if perhaps the ISBN and barcode is wrong (still awaiting their response.)
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I was able to find your book, and combined all the editions. Both Kindle editions bring up the right Amazon pages for me; I restored the ISBN on the non-Kindle ebook, and now the Google Books link works. (The Amazon one does not for that edition, which is unsurprising.)
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Thank you for your follow up and help. There are major problems though.I just looked up "Jim Lindsey" @ 10:15am Pacific 3/17/11. When I clicked on the Kindle link, the page that comes up says "oops, can't find it!" then a link to go to Amazon's Home page. (The default link for Amazon should be US, not Canada. That's the way that we created the account so don't know how that happened. It is published by my American publisher, SeaStorm Press in California. )
When I clicked the link "Download e-book" a FREE copy downloaded! Please - Fix this!
When I clicked "Buy a Copy: the system searches for prices, but all that it shows is a Canadian dollar of 0!
First, this should be US dollars, 2nd it should be listed as $2.99!!! Not Free!
Please - we need help in getting these errors fixed!
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The ebook was uploaded by you as a free ebook (accidentally, I gather) -- it has been deleted, and you can now add it again. I think the reason you weren't able to add it with a price before is because you were not a member of the Goodreads Author Program, so I added you to it.
The system automatically converts prices to local currency for some countries, including Canada. It also automatically converts some booklinks -- Canadian users get Amazon.ca links, and American ones get Amazon.com ones. Every user can customize their books links, so if you don't see a Google Books link, it's because you haven't added it to your list of links. (I thought it was a default, but maybe not.)
Actually, since Google Books are a bookseller now, you can't add it to your list of links anymore. And, as far as I can tell, it only shows up under the buy button for editions which don't have ISBNs -- so, if there's an edition for sale through Google Books, does that mean it needs a new ISBNless edition?
Thank you, Rivka. It appears we should upload the ebook via the publisher's account so that the Canadian aspect doesn't enter into the equation. (The Amazon account is the publishers. Also, Google Books. We will be adding Barnes and Noble and Smashwords, and through Smashwords, perhaps Apple.)
So - for now - we upload another ebook in the Author's Program? (thank you for that, btw!)
Jim Lindsey and
SeaStorm Press, Sebastopol CA
We just discovered that our search for my name returned THREE versions! http://www.goodreads.com/work/edition... What can you do to fix this?
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Booksellers can get added to your list; they just don't appear on the book page itself, but on the "more" page. Google Books should appear in the "buy" dropdown list for any book not sourced from Amazon, including the non-Kindle edition of the book under discussion. They show up as the first option on the buy dropdown for me.
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What can you do to fix this?"
There is nothing to fix. That is CORRECT. You have three editions, all of which have been combined into a single work. Just like if a book were available as both a paperback and a hardcover, except in this case yours has three different ebook editions.
Jim wrote: "We just discovered that our search for my name returned THREE versions! http://www.goodreads.com/work/edition... What can you do to fix this?"
That looks correct to me. What needs to be fixed?
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It won't make a difference. Canadian v. US only matters in terms of what user is downloading the book, not uploading.
Also, when your book is for sale with other ebook sellers, IF it uses the same ISBN as the one listed on Google Books (which is true most but not all of the time), you won't need to add anything from the Goodreads side -- that ISBN already has its edition.
Thanks, Rivka. There's still a major problem. When I click "Buy" the page it goes to says "Checking for vendor prices." After checking for about 30 secs or so, nothing returns.... At least before it went to an Amazon message that didn't know the number or couldn't find it. I double checked the ISBN by deleting and adding back in. Didn't do anything. Tried to change it back to ASIN - but I got the message that the ASIN is taken by another book with this title. I thought that the books were merged?
Perhaps it has to do with the ISBN, so I've requested that the company from which we bought the ISBN to check it with Bowker, make sure there aren't any issues on that end. This is my first time doing this, so I'm not sure what the problem is.
What do you think about this solution?
Until we can resolve this ISBN/ASIN issue - that you make sure there is only 1 book and that The Flaw in the Fabric has the ASIN B004RPS2KY (at least it will go to an Amazon link, broken as that one is.)
-Jim & SeaStorm Press
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I see it listed as for sale on Amazon when I look at the buy page. If you don't, it's again because of the US/Canada issue.
There are 2 books listed. They need to be merged.
Book title: "The Flaw in the Fabric, book one of a Travellers Guide for Lost Souls"
Thank you,
Jim T. Lindsey
Canada