Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

This is an upcoming experimental novel that needs to be added to the site. There are two editions. Details below. I've included direct links to the cover art rather than to the publisher website because the publisher's website has right click/save image disabled, and I don't think the librarians want to fiddle around with Inspect Element to get to the art.

Paperback Edition:

TITLE: The Holy Day
AUTHOR: Christopher Norris [please note the three spaces between the author's first and last name to ensure that the correct author is added]
ISBN: 9798987581834
PUBLISHER: Rose Books
DATE PUBLISHED: October 10, 2023
ORIGINAL PUBLICATION DATE: October 10, 2023
NUMBER OF PAGES: [N/A, this is a weird indie experimental novel, the publisher's website isn't forthcoming with all the details, and it's not available on any standard bookseller sites.]
FORMAT: Paperback
DESCRIPTION:
A novel about a former teen detective going on vacation to die. Featuring original art by Robert Hickerson, Johnny Ryan, B. Thom Stevenson, Mike Diana, and Sammy Harkham.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: Taken from the publisher's website: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/co... Yes, even though there is a barcode and ISBN in this image, this is the front cover of the book. The ISBN barcode is on both the front and back cover. I can provide a link to the publisher's website to prove that this is the front cover if needed.


Limited Clothbound Hardcover Edition
TITLE: The Holy Day
AUTHOR: Christopher Norris [please note the three spaces between the author's first and last name to ensure that the correct author is added]
ISBN: [N/A, the publisher website doesn't list it and there are no pictures of the back cover of the limited edition where a barcode might be]
PUBLISHER: Rose Books
DATE PUBLISHED: October 10, 2023
ORIGINAL PUBLICATION DATE: October 10, 2023
NUMBER OF PAGES: [N/A, this is a weird indie experimental novel, the publisher's website isn't forthcoming with all the details, and it's not available on any standard bookseller sites.]
FORMAT: Hardcover
EDITION: Limited Clothbound Hardcover Edition
DESCRIPTION:
A novel about a former teen detective going on vacation to die. Featuring original art by Robert Hickerson, Johnny Ryan, B. Thom Stevenson, Mike Diana, and Sammy Harkham.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: Taken from the publisher's website: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/co... Yes, I know this looks like a blank white image, but if you zoom in closely around the middle of the page you can see that there is visible text even though it's white text on a white background.

It's been a week, so I'm bumping the thread.

One-week bump.

Bumping again.

Another bump.

Bump.

Bumping.

Bump once again.

Bumping. This book is releasing a week from tomorrow and it still needs to be added.

Bump. The paperback edition has been added to Goodreads, but in duplicate. Either the two editions need to be merged, or the edition that does not have an ISBN needs to have its cover art and other information edited so that it matches the clothbound hardcover edition.

Hi, the duplicate is being addressed, it can take several hours to be merged.
As for the hardcover edition, it appears to be a limited print of just a few copies, that were signed by the author and only available on pre-order. Since it doesn't seem to have an ISBN, I believe it doesn't qualify for adding here. Also, the cover on the publisher's website is just a mockup.
https://www.rosebooks.co/store/p/the-...

Kamila wrote: "Hi, the duplicate is being addressed, it can take several hours to be merged.
As for the hardcover edition, it appears to be a limited print of just a few copies, that were signed by the author and..."

I don't see why it being a limited edition and not having an ISBN would mean it shouldn't be added to Goodreads. There are plenty of extremely limited edition and small press books on the site, and plenty of items without ISBNs. For example, there's a very popular indie horror publisher that puts many 20th century genre works back into print and they don't assign ISBNs to their e-books. ISBN-less short stories are also allowed to be added to Goodreads if they've been published on a website somewhere. Goodreads policy also allows amateur fanfiction to be added to the site, and those definitely don't have ISBNs, ASINs, or any other kind of identification number.

Additionally, the first book from this publisher received a similar ISBN-less clothbound hardcover edition that uses a digital version of the cover (which makes sense to me, since scanning a clothbound cover with foil lettering can be difficult given how the light of a scanner might be reflected in the foil), and there doesn't seem to be any problem with that.

Ok, thank you for the input, I will later today investigate the GoodReads regulations about how to add such an edition and try my best to add it.

Done: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Kamila wrote: "Done: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..."

Thanks so much for the help.