How to Rescue your Book on Goodreads

This blog will explain how to rescue your book from being removed on Goodreads.

Previously, Goodreads received information from Amazon such as book descriptions, author and publisher info, and book covers.

*STARTING JANUARY 30th GOODREADS WILL DELETE BOOKS WITH INFO RECEIVED FROM AMAZON*

You can, however, rescue your book by following these steps:

IMPORTANT NOTE: 
In order for you to edit the details of a book, you must first verify with Goodreads you are the author of the book. Do this by clicking your author name on the Goodreads book page, scroll down to the bottom and click "Is this you?" Goodreads will send you an email to confirm and then in a day or two Goodreads will verify you are the author of the book and allow you to edit the details.

Got your Goodreads account verified? Then follow these steps....
 
First, gather all the important information, such as publication date and product description. Also, have a picture file (.jpg or .png) of your cover image save to your hard drive.

Next, go to your book's page on Goodreads (if you don't have it bookmarked, go to www.goodreads.com and search for the title of your book at the top)

On your book, search for "edit details" under the product description (it's small and gray)

You may or may not be directed to a page that reads "Rescue the book with ISBN/ASIN #....." 

If NOT - your book is safe

If SO - the screen will look like this:


Fill out the details in the fields. 

NOTE: Do NOT use Amazon as the source URL. I used my publisher's web address. You could use another site's url if you book is currently published through Barnes and Noble or another book site. If you are the author, I personally think you could use your own website as the source url (since it's your book!). Possibly even shelfari.com or another book information site, though I haven't tried it.

NOTE: The url may have to be written with http://www.(site).com for Goodreads to accept it.

I'll be happy to help if you have more questions. I also love meeting new authors on Goodreads! Find me on Facebook (Danielle Raver, Author)

7 comments:

  1. Caroline GerardoJanuary 22, 2012 at 5:10 PM

    Is it because of copyright or licensing?

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  2. Connie J JaspersonJanuary 22, 2012 at 5:14 PM

    Thank you for your help in this! This is very unfair of them to do this, and they should endure bad karma for it!

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  3. Danielle ButtsJanuary 22, 2012 at 6:20 PM

    Caroline,
    My theory is it's because they are starting to sell ebooks directly from Goodreads, so by using information from Amazon it is a legal issue.

    Connie,
    I agree, it is a pain. Our publisher has over thirty authors and they each have to do this individually to rescue their books.

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  4. Dwight OkitaJanuary 22, 2012 at 6:38 PM

    Thanks for this, Danielle. I checked and I don't get the Rescue page. I think it's because I had listed Createspace as my publisher and for official URL, I put my blog address.

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  5. Girl Who ReadsJanuary 23, 2012 at 4:00 PM

    According the discussion thread on Goodreads, the url has to be somewhere other than a book seller's website. If you are the author, you can just click the "I have a physical copy" and then you do not have to provide the url.

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  6. Johanna GarthJanuary 25, 2012 at 12:06 PM

    Thanks so much Dani! Off to see if my book needs to be rescued.

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  7. Robert M. RobertsJanuary 26, 2012 at 10:46 AM

    Great post! Thanks for sharing!

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