Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

I don't want to call anyone out, so I'll keep this hypothetical.

Assuming I ran across an author who spent a good deal of time removing a dozen or so of their books (removing the covers, all ISBN and ASIN info, publisher, and finally changing the author.) Further given these are indie published books, but quite popular ones, one that wasn't even published yet had over 600 shelvings, and some of them had several thousand ratings, so having a bunch of no-cover, untitled, no-author books would in this specific case be affecting a LOT of readers.

Is it worth me, as a wee librarian, sending them a polite note pointing them to the GR policy, or should I contact staff and ask them do it? What do you do when you run across someone behaving contrary to GR policy?

This has happened before - will try to dredge up the thread :)

Here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

We do suggest contacting the author first, and perhaps politely linking them to an appropriate bit of the Help/Manual or Author FAQ (such as http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... or http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/22...).

If you get no response after a week or so, or a response that is less than helpful, please do send a message via the Contact Us link and a staff member will look into it.

Thanks :)

It's not a back and forth (yet) and probably not malicious, just a misunderstanding, so I will drop them a note and hope it's all sorted out. I guess we'll see soon enough.