Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

As I was about to add the French edition of "The world we live in", by Lincoln Barnett (see wikipedia), I stumbled upon this "author" instead: Time-Life Books
It has a lot of books (even 2 fans!) and a few fellows: http://www.goodreads.com/author/simil...

I thought it wasn't good practice to have a company as an author, but now I wonder, because there's even a description on the profile page.
So what is the policy for that?

A lot of times the publisher gets put in as the author. I fix them when I can, in this case since you know the correct author you should fix it.

I'll fix the few books I know can be attributed to Lincoln Barnett, without keeping Time-Life Books even as secondary author.

That'll still leave an awful lot without a real author, too much to sort out without actually having the books. An Herculean job for another time...

In some cases, T-L books really have no other known (credited) author.

Jessica wrote: "A lot of times the publisher gets put in as the author. I fix them when I can, in this case since you know the correct author you should fix it."
rivka wrote: "In some cases, T-L books really have no other known (credited) author."

Not that my opinions often carry any weight, but taking into consideration the number of books Time-Life publishes in a specific series, I think it would make perfect sense, when a book IS part of a Time-life series (e.g., The Enchanted World) to list "Time-Life-Books" as a secondary author with "Series Publisher" as role. It would make life so much easier when conducting a search...

**shrug**

James, I think that makes sense to me.