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Niledaughter
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Feb 19, 2012 02:21AM
If a blogger gathered his blogs in one written item and upload it online to one of the sharing files web sites , then entered it to goodreads as a published item with the ability to be distributed through goodreads , well that be ok ? In case this is approved , what would be the right description ? (Not a book?)
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Can you provide a link to an example? It may qualify as "self-published".
It is Arabic :http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
the URL is Media fire , when I asked , it was not published in any other format .
In my personal opinion, I would leave it, since it is being made available as a download. It is very close to the same thing as books and short stories made available for free for kindle and nook. Others may feel differently, though.
I would agree with vicky_girl, FWIW. There have even been movies based on books that started as blogs, so the mere fact that it once existed as a blog shouldn't have any bearing on the matter once it becomes a book (or book-on-CD, or ebook, or....)
Should we place such publications under (Not a book) ?
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In any case, there's no reason to put non-ISBN items in Not A Book. We would just delete any that don't belong here.
rivka wrote: "In any case, there's no reason to put non-ISBN items in Not A Book. We would just delete any that don't belong here."So does that mean, now that we're not importing from Amazon anymore, items like DVD movies with an ISBN also can be deleted rather than NABed? I've tended to stay away from the NAB work because I've never understood the policy or technique as well as others, and with the old imports it seemed kinda fruitless, but maybe it's easier now.
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rivka wrote: "However, for any that have never been shelved, you should see a link on the edit page to mark it Not A Book."Oh, well that should make life a little easier. :)
