Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

This author: Tom Thomas seems to have written hundreds of books; co-authoring with everyone from William Shakespeare to Friedrich Nietzsche to Albert Einstein. In particular, what do we do with books that have only him as author, like this one?

It looks like he published a bunch of public domain works through CreateSpace and is crediting himself as the author.

I didn't know that was possible. What a douche.

Lobstergirl wrote: "What a douche."

Can we put that as his author description?

Not a bad idea...

LOL!

The Cisco/Networking books are Thomas M. Thomas II I will fix those and merge the Thomas M. Thomas page also.

willaful wrote: "Can we put that as his author description?"

No. But I understand the temptation.

rivka: but shouldn't all these books basically list the original author as author, and Tom Thomas as editor?

Eiseli wrote: "rivka: but shouldn't all these books basically list the original author as author, and Tom Thomas as editor?"

That seems like a good idea to me. I've actually seen him listed as such on another site.

Eiseli wrote: "rivka: but shouldn't all these books basically list the original author as author, and Tom Thomas as editor?"

Yup.

Ok, did that. Wow, there was a lot to do. However didn't have the time to focus on other details (like lots of the books mention "Volume 1" while there is no volume 2, so I reckon it should be removed. By the way, there's another Tom Thomas which I discovered in the process, so the Tom Thomas we're talking of now is located here: Tom Thomas (2 spaces)