THAT isn't one of my husband's books!

[Alessandra]

In the course of the Amazongeddon, while checking my rescue books, I also checked on my husband the author's novels.

I did a search under his name, Richard Garfinkle, and fixed up a few of his books which were threatened with deletion or had Amazon-provided covers.

But I also found, well, this: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

That's never one of his books. I think it's one of those horrible fake book reprints of Wikipedia articles which started showing up on secondhand book dealers' sites a year or two ago, the kind that bundles freely available public information and tries to sell it to gullible or desperate researchers at ridiculously inflated prices.

Can it go away? Can what is essentially a photocopy of a Wikepedia article be labeled as "not a book" and removed from the database?

[Paula]

These stay, there has been a lot of discussion on this type of "books" but they meet the criteria of being published and on sale.

It does not appear to be connected to his author profile

[Alessandra]

Blerg. Okay. Thank you.

I did note it had no ratings or comments or anything that would bring attention to it (oops, I think I'll edit that first post) unless you do a search under his name.

I ought to have realised other people had brought up this issue before and checked. I appreciate your help.

[Alessandra]

Oh. Huh. Now it's gone.

[vicki_girl]

GR is doing a cleanup of Amazon sourced books that no one has shelved, rated or reviewed. It probably got deleted as part of that.

[Michael]

vicki_girl wrote: "GR is doing a cleanup of Amazon sourced books that no one has shelved, rated or reviewed. It probably got deleted as part of that."

Every cloud...

[mlady_rebecca]

That's definitely the up side to deleting books that no one has shelved.

[Sandra]

Yay!!! That is a huge up-side :)