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

[annathepiper]

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

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.

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Comments

[thunderpigeon.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. I just "rescued" two anthos I'm in--though I still need to follow up by forwarding this to the publishers/editors, so they can save their other books, and editions I don't have of the same book.

Luckily, all the Drollerie books seem to be safe, even though you can't get them any more. (I think it's good to keep a record of out-of-print books, though that may be in part because I'm now in so many...)

[annathepiper]

Welcome!

I note on the form page that they're saying one's data will NOT go away--that if your only edition for a book is a Kindle Edition, the data about it will be shifted to a book with no listed author or title if they can't find a different edition.

Still though it's VERY interesting that they're doing this and the main issue I'm really wondering about is the expressed concern about openness of data. I REALLY wonder what's going on between Goodreads and Amazon now.