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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Thank you for all the information. I got the email and rescued about 30 books before I ran out of free time last night.
I'm inordinately annoyed at Amazon for doing this, ESPECIALLY since I imagine this will make it very hard to fold in e-books only published on Amazon.
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I got the last of yours rescued, so you're all done. I think all my "priority peeps" are now taken care of as far as books in danger of deletion.
Edit: This is not true. Missed a couple of peeps. Working on that now.
I'm not too worried about the Amazon-only ebooks for a few reasons. One, the authors usually have book info on their own web site or blog, and that can be used as a source. Two, these days a lot of indie authors enter their books into the database themselves. Three, all that's needed to add it to GR (if one and two don't happen) is for someone to have a copy of the ebook.
ASINs are considered an accessible identifier the same way that ISBNs are, so that's not an issue either.
One upside to all of this is now we no longer have to deal with the all-to-often incorrect metadata from Amazon, and librarians will no longer have to worry about keeping up with the "not a book" items automatically showing up from the Amazon data feed. Goodreads is also no longer subject to the restrictions of using Amazon data. I believe that once the dust settles, this change is a net positive.