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Goodreads also has something similar : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43056033-harry-potter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43056033-harry-potter Ther
by niea_11 6y ago
Goodreads also has something similar : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43056033-harry-potter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43056033-harry-potter
There is an explanation under "About the author" section :
This "author" was created to segregate those items which have ISBNs but are not actually books. For more information, see the manual and/or start a thread in the Librarians Group.
When an item which is not a book is imported via ISBN into Goodreads, it does no good to delete it: the item will only be re-imported as long as it remains on the feeder site. (Often these are book-related items which are assigned ISBNs by book publishers so that they can be tracked through their book systems.)
- elliekelly 6y agoI wonder who the executive was who decided to start assigning International Standard Book Numbers to non-books. “Why not? What’s the big deal?” said someone who has never worked with garbage data.
- rozab 6y agoBig booksellers whose whole systems are built around ISBNs as a primary key
- factotvm 6y agoWhen all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- KineticLensman 6y ago"And hammer marks start to mysteriously appear everywhere."
- smokelegend 6y ago"Not a bug, but a feature"
- Throwaway1771 6y agoNot an executive, but a middle manager etc that said: "paying $2-10k+ to add an International Standard Book Accessory Number field to their software will never get approved for a bookmark that works as a compass, or a promotional Harry Potter bookend set." Tough to disagree.