Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Please merge

1. Newsletter serials (two parts that were extended and published as one book) with the kindle edition
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
and then recombine with https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... (paperback and audio)

2. Placeholders (these duplicates are really old because the publication was delayed many times, the book was finally published only last May)
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

3. Placeholder duplicate (empty) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...


Thanks

1 Done
3 Done

2 For the first book, you removed the ASIN, what is the reason for that?

That was the old Atria Books' ASIN, which was never published. I'm 100% sure because I was waiting for this book, but there's also the author's comment in the default edition's changelog (from April - #200476457).

The book ended up being self-published with another ASIN, which I moved to the default. It was empty because the author removed the old paperback ISBN, but also uploaded a high quality Kindle edition cover. The paperback cover is a bit different and I didn't want to change that (I edited another coverless Atria Books placeholder for that).

I will look at the change log again later.

Some general advise for these kind of issues, removing the very important data such as an ASIN should be done extremely careful.
In some cases like a never published edition it is just better to leave the data and explain it in your request.
And when edits on important data are made it is always good to use the 'change comment' field so the next librarian can understand why an edit is made and/or based on which source it is done.

I don't know why I didn't leave a comment. I'll be more careful next time. Sorry for the extra work.
Thank you very much.