Goodreads Developers discussion

I have been playing with Goodreads API and realized that some API functions return something called "works". For example "search_books" returns a list of "works" where each work has some data such as "ratings_count", "original_publication_year" and "best_book" which has info about a book. Is a "work" defined as a collection of books?

I'd appreciate some clarification.

Think of "book" as "edition" so a "work" has multiple "editions" (books).

Does that make sense?

That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.