THE Group for Authors! discussion

A reader notified me that when they clicked the Goodreads link to buy my latest book, An Illusion of Trust, on Amazon they saw only the link to the paperback, which they didn't want. When I checked, I found that the link from the book's GR paperback page does show only the paperback on Amazon, but the link from the ebook's GR page shows both the paperback and the Kindle book.

Is there some way to correct the link from the paperback's Goodread page?

Two things were going on. First of all, the Kindle edition had an ISBN instead of an ASIN. I corrected that, which means that clicking the link from the Kindle edition goes straight to the product page with the Kindle Edition selected on Amazon.

For the paperback, I added the ISBN-10 in addition to the ISBN-13 to get a direct match on Amazon. Now, when clicking the Amazon link, it goes straight to the book page with the paperback selected instead of a "search results" page.

(Be aware that Amazon is making changes to their book pages, so a book product page from a search on one edition may look different than a search on another edition, even though all editions are available from the product page. This is an Amazon thing "in transition" and not a result of the Goodreads links.)

Thank you for the fixes, Christa.

Yes, I had noticed that some books have the new Amazon pages. In fact, I thought that might be the problem with my book page.

You're welcome. :) Yeah, the book page changes are making things weird over there, but fortunately this issue was something we had control over.