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Heads up to all authors with Kindle Editions and to Goodreads users

January 21, 2012 Posted by annathepiper under Other People's Books
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I started spotting notices on various editions of books on Goodreads last night talking about how as of January 30th, they’re going to stop using book data from Amazon. Affected book editions are showing notices at the top of their pages that look like this:

Goodreads Data Alert

Goodreads Data Alert

If you click on the Learn More button a new page pops up talking about Goodread’s reasons for doing this, and displaying a form where you can fill in data from other sources to make sure that the book doesn’t vanish out of their database.

AUTHORS: Go check your books on Goodreads and make sure you’re not about to lose your only entry in their database. ESPECIALLY if your only listed edition is a Kindle Edition.

GOODREADS USERS: Check your bookshelves and see if you’re about to lose any Kindle Editions out of your various shelves. You do NOT need librarian access to rescue a book–anybody can fill in the form, apparently. But you should rescue any obvious Kindle Editions in your lists. All you need is a legitimate source of data about the book, from somewhere other than Amazon.

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4 Responses to Heads up to all authors with Kindle Editions and to Goodreads users

  1. William CooperJanuary 21, 2012 at 8:52 pm

    Kindle books are not at risk. Goodreads staff has already said that they’re working on a way to keep the Kindle books in their database.

    • annathepiperJanuary 22, 2012 at 4:56 pm

      Where are you getting this communication? I follow Goodreads on Twitter but have missed anything they might have publicly announced.

      I mentioned the Kindle Editions mostly because those are the ones most likely to be using information derived from Amazon, which puts them in the risk category because of that, rather than because they’re Kindle editions per se. But it’s good to hear that the Goodreads folks are working on a way to preserve those as Kindle Editions in the DB, since of course those won’t be going away. And I have a horse in that race, given that there was a Kindle edition of my book for sale and certainly one that still exists on a few Kindles out there!

  2. sherry robertsJanuary 22, 2012 at 4:51 pm

    Thanks for the heads up, Angela. I have rescued my books: Book of Mercy and Maud’s House. Since Book of Mercy is about rescuing books, it seemed rather ironic.