Book under pseudonym and actual name, combine editions?

[Peter]

Jonathan Ryder is a pseudonym of ROBERT LUDLUM.. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... and http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38... should probably be considered different editions of the same book.

Shouldn't they be combined?

[Kim]

I've fixed it up

[Peter]

Same issue with http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86... and http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...

[Kim]

Why couldn't he have just used one name.

[Peter]

Lots of writers use pseudonyms; some examples are (Hugh Pentecost, Judson Philips) and (Ed McBain, Evan Hunter, Richard Marsden, plus at least 2 more) not to mention (Stephen King, Richard Bachman).

McBain said that he used different names for different types of books, so readers of his books would know what to expect when they bought one of his.

[Kim]

What needs to happen with Trevayne is someone has to go through every copy and make sure Jonathan Ryder is the primary author and Robert Ludlum is an additional author and then they can all be combined under the original release name. Unfortunately I can't do it right now.

[Peter]

Luckily, I think these are all of them.

[Kim]

I think there may be some more Bourne ones that need to have Ludlum removed though.

[Peter]

Pretty easy to find those, though. Ludlum did not write any after #3. Some of the later ones list him as (series creator), which may not be a bad idea.

[Meredith]

Kim wrote: "What needs to happen with Trevayne is someone has to go through every copy and make sure Jonathan Ryder is the primary author and Robert Ludlum is an additional author and then they can all be comb..."

I can go through and set Jonathan Ryder as the primary. I don't have any experience with doing the combining part of things, though.

[Kim]

Peter wrote: "Pretty easy to find those, though. Ludlum did not write any after #3. Some of the later ones list him as (series creator), which may not be a bad idea."

As long as they're all listed on the series page that part shouldn't matter.

Meredith wrote: "I can go through and set Jonathan Ryder as the primary. I don't have any experience with doing the combining part of things, though."

If you can fix the authors than myself or someone else can do the combining.

[Meredith]

If you can fix the authors than myself or someone else can do the combining.

Trevayne is ready to be combined.

[Kim]

Thanks, all combined