Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Hello!

I would love some help. Two versions of my book keep separating.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
is the same book as
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

I feel like I've combined editions before and they've separated again. The only difference is the covers, but I don't want my old cover displaying anymore because it sold fewer copies, it was only available for a limited time,Jen Guberman and fewer people will recognize it. The purple cover is the one that should be displaying. How do I merge them and ensure the purple cover is the version that shows?

You just have a lot of editions so you have probably combined some before. These are newer ones that imported automatically. I have combined them.

We do not delete old covers, as users like to shelve the edition that they have.

To set the default edition that displays, follow these directions:
https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...

Is there a reason why there are so many editions? There should only be two. I published once with the old cover and once with the new.

I'm fine with the old cover being visible, I just didn't know why it kept showing up as the default after I changed it back when I published the new version.
Thanks for combining them! I'll go ahead and set the default of which displays.

You have the following editions of the book:
- four hardcovers, all with unique ISBNs
- three paperbacks, again all with unique ISBNs
- one kindle edition, published 11 Nov 2019
- one edition (published April 2017) without any information on format and ISBN/ASIN; this might be the old cover of the kindle edition?

All different formats are treated as different editions here, as well as all editions having a unique ISBN/ASIN.

I have no clue how I could have four hardcovers. I only published two books with my old publisher, and my new one doesn't offer hard covers. Dang. I wish I could take some of those down!

Thanks again!

Jen wrote: "I have no clue how I could have four hardcovers. I only published two books with my old publisher, and my new one doesn't offer hard covers. Dang. I wish I could take some of those down!"

The Hardcover ISBNs were all automatically imported from the Ingram feed. Maybe the publisher assigned an ISBN and then ended up using another. If you investigate and see that one was never used, you could email Support with the details and they might remove that particular edition.