Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

I have created a page of my book but have assigned it to someone else who has the same name. I need to change it. The cover has not been uploaded either. Thank you.

Mi perfil: https://www.goodreads.com/mjmoreno_

My book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Please provide the correct ISBN for this work before I do anything else. You have entered the ISBN13 in the wrong field, so it cut off the end of the number.

Sorry.
Número ISBN: 978-84-09-24900-8

I just looked and now they have passed it to another profile that is not mine either. My profile is this: https://www.goodreads.com/mjmoreno_
That profile must have been created by some colleagues who uploaded an anthology, but I don't have access to that profile.

Please, I would like to transfer those two books: "Antología de calabazas" y "Ley de Enfermedad 0" to my profile:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6...-

Muchas gracias.

MJ wrote: "Sorry.
Número ISBN: 978-84-09-24900-8

I just looked and now they have passed it to another profile that is not mine either. My profile is this: https://www.goodreads.com/mjmoreno_
That profile mus..."

I corrected the author name to the proper format. I'll work on this and get back to you.

If you have the cover, please upload it to the photo section of your profile and I will get it from there to add to this work.

MJ wrote: "Please, I would like to transfer those two books: "Antología de calabazas" y "Ley de Enfermedad 0" to my profile:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6...-

Muchas gracias."

please provide links to editions when asking for editing for accuracy.

I am working on this and will get back to you.

Sorry, I don't know how to upload the book cover because it doesn't appear on my profile.
They appear in a profile called M.J. Moreno and it's not mine.

I leave you a link to a drive:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hsu8...

MJ wrote: "Sorry, I don't know how to upload the book cover because it doesn't appear on my profile.
They appear in a profile called M.J. Moreno and it's not mine."

You have a user profile not an author profile. Your user profile has a place to add photos. You can upload the book cover to that section and I will get the cover from there.

Goodreads has specific cataloging standards for author names with initials.

Your author profile will have to be: M.J. Moreno.

Here is the author profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

There is another book on that profile. If it is yours, you can claim both works by scrolling down to the place on that page where it says is this you? and following the steps to claim that profile.

If you will let me know when you upload the cover to your user profile, I will finish setting up that book for you.

Suzi wrote: "MJ wrote: "Please, I would like to transfer those two books: "Antología de calabazas" y "Ley de Enfermedad 0" to my profile:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6...-

Muchas gracias."

plea..."

Ley de Enfermedad o: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Degustación de calabazas: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Mi perfil: https://www.goodreads.com/mjmoreno_

Bookcover: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hsu8...

Thank you very much.

On your Goodreads user profile, there is a photo section.

Please add the photo of the book cover to that section.

I get an error when trying to get to the Google drive link you posted.

You can claim your author profile by following the steps I listed in message 9

Ok, but I don't quite understand this and I have some questions. (I'm sorry I don't speak English very well and I'm with the translator).

I had this profile: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6...

You tell me that it is a user. Can't this profile be transformed into an author profile and continue working with it?
If not, would you have to have two profiles: one author and one user? How would I enter my author profile? I would have to configure it again and pass all my data from the user profile, which is the one that also appears on all social networks.

Regarding the name. It is that my author name is not M.J. Brown. My author name is MJ Moreno and it appears this way in the book and on the cover. Do I have to change my author name to M.J. Brown? It is registered in the intellectual property and in the ISBN as MJ Moreno. At Goodreads there is another author named MJ Moreno (who mistook my name for hers) and she has books by that name.

I'm going to see if I can find that area to upload photos because I have searched for it on the internet and in all the tabs and I cannot find it.

Thanks again.

I think I was able to upload the cover myself.

If I have to keep that author profile ... How do I edit it to upload the photo and my description?

Thank you.

Voucher. I've been reporting.

I want to change this profile:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6...
To an author profile and then assign those books to my author profile.
I don't want to have two accounts. The account of M.J. Moreno is not mine and I do not want to associate the books with that account.

Thank you.

1. There are thousands of instances of authors with the same name across the centuries and around the world.

2. Goodreads is not a retail site but a site that catalogs books and maintains records on those books.

3. Every cataloging entity in the world, including every publisher, and every library and digital book site of any kind has standards for author names and title formats.

4. Goodreads requires that authors who use initial have the format of a "dot" and no space between initials. That is true for every single author on this site. I do not make this policy, I am simply stating what it is.

5. Goodreads has user/reader profiles and author profiles.

6. The way to claim your author profile and to merge it with your user profile is to go to the author page M.J. Moreno and scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link that says "is this you" and follow the steps from there.

7. Goodreads librarians are volunteers, and are not employees of Goodreads. Only Goodreads staff can set up author profiles.

8. The only way to merge your user profile with the unclaimed author profile is to follow the steps I have given you.

9. Because there are several authors with versions of your name, from time to time other author's books may appear on your profile or your works may appear on a different profile of the same name.
This is a function of the computer automatic download or of user error when the person who sets up the record is not familiar with the way author names are formatted. It is not deliberate or any way indicates that another author is claiming your work or attributing their work to you.

10. Any time something like that happens, just post in this forum and a librarian can correct it for you.

I don't know what some of the answers you give me come to, but thanks anyway.

MJ wrote: "I don't know what some of the answers you give me come to, but thanks anyway."

Hola, MJ. We can do this. :)

1. Go to this link. This is the place to get your author profile.
2. Enter the answers. At the bottom of the form, add any other books that belong to you.
3. Select "Submit Application"

The Goodreads staff will review the application. Then they will move your reader account (the one you use now) to your new author account with your books on it. They will send you an email when the account is ready. This may take a few business days if the staff is very busy, so please be patient.

Once you have your author account, you will be able to make certain changes to your books, including combining different editions of the same book. You'll also be able to choose which edition will be the default—that is, the one that comes up in searches by title and shows on your author profile.

See The Goodreads Author Program for more information.

Thank you Dobby 😊
Can I add genre?

You cannot: "Genres" that appear on the book pages are crowdsourced - i.e. based on tags users choose. As such, librarians have no control over those.