Trying to add new book for an author who is self-published

[Natasa]

Hello, I'm a new librarian and I can't figure out how to add this particular book to the gr database. It's called Cat's Eye by Theresa Shreffler.

There are 2 editions for this, paperback and ebook. Because it's self-published, both of them have the same number of pages (the ebook is a PDF, no other versions exist) and the same ISBN. The most info I could come up with on the publisher was "Independent Publisher", which isn't the name of the publisher when I googled it - seems to me that it's on the copyright page for no other reason than looking more professional.

My question is, for both editions, should I keep the same values for the fields ISBN and page number? As for the publisher field, I don't like to leave it blank, but I'm hesitant about putting Independent Publisher in it. Thanks!

[Vicky]

Do you have a link to this book?

[Natasa]

I've already created it actually, here's the link:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

Since this is my first time creating a book I'd really appreciate it if you could point out mistakes!!

Here are the websites I used for sources for looking up the book's details:
http://www.crystalmaiden.com/catseye.php
http://news.deviantart.com/article/43...
http://www.facebook.com/tlshreffler?s...

[Vicky]

They look pretty good to me, to answer some of your questions:

You can not enter the same ISBN for multiple books, but I would add a Librarian's Note to the ebook version so that people know that it is a legitimate version without an ISBN number. It's not necessary to do so, but whenever I add a book without an ISBN number I like to add a note about why, just so no one else thinks its an erroneous edition to delete. :)

On the edit book page above title there is a link titled "add a librarian note." Click there and a box will come up. I would add something like Independently Published PDF Ebook with no ISBN.

The page numbers are fine.

For the publisher... I don't know that we have a strict policy on independently published books. I would probably put the author's name as the publisher, but I suspect Independent Publisher works fine as well.

[Sandra]

I usually put self published or if it is available at somewhere like Smashwords, I put that.

And I agree with Vicky about putting the Librarian Note, that is most useful.