Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

I wonder what happens when amazon deletes a cover from a book which is using that cover. Will it still be on goodreads or will disappear as well?

It would disappear here too, I believe, but only if certain updates were done on the book record.

Why would Amazon delete the cover?

Amazon does delete covers when new editions of books come out (with new covers).

and when a book becomes out-of-print?
I thought amazon would delete the books that are not being sold eventually.

Amazon has many books that are out-of-print, and some that are out of stock.

And in my mind, replacing a cover is different than deleting it. When that happens we usually default the GR record to the cover on Amazon now and create a new record for the old edition/cover (with no ISBN, since in that case the ISBN has already been taken).

Ok, I thought Amazon would delete the oldest books (or at least the covers) because when editing a book that has amazon's cover it ask to upload another image.

They give the option of additional cover images.

Belén wrote: "Ok, I thought Amazon would delete the oldest books (or at least the covers) because when editing a book that has amazon's cover it ask to upload another image."

Belén, if you're working on a book that's pulling the wrong cover from Amazon -- this happens sometimes, if the record on Amazon is wrong -- you can upload the correct one directly to the GR servers and that one will take precedence over the Amazon cover.

If we're loading an image directly from Amazon, yeah, we're vulnerable to Amazon deleting that image from their servers. On the other hand, Amazon's image servers are much more reliable than GR's (which often "lose" various cover sizes -- I'm still not clear on how that happens) and Amazon doesn't, I believe, delete cover images very often.