User talk:Jacques Otoro

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DREAMNASIUM
Welcome to the ISFDB! Two edits were submitted, for the same publication. Since the second one adds more/different data, I've rejected the first and have put the second one on hold. I've found the publication on Amazon.com, and, oddly, nowhere else! I am hoping you have the book as I have a couple of questions and some changes to the way some of the data is entered. The title as given includes the author's name. Unfortunately there's no Amazon "Look-Inside" feature to see what the title page looks like. Very often the spine/cover is different than the title page and we always use what is on the title page. Normally the author's name would not be included in the title, which would then become "Dreamnasium". Note that I didn't use all-caps. Regardless of how the typesetter displays the title, all-caps is reserved/used for acronyms and the like. In the date field is 2010-00-00, but the date on the Amazon listing is 2007-10. This book may have been planned for 2007 and not released until now, though a 2-3 year delay would be most unusual. It would explain why I can't find any reference to the book on OCLC, LOC or Locus, and even Amazon.UK doesn't list it. You have entered the publisher as "The Winterman Project". I see no reference to that on Amazon, which has the publisher as "CreateSpace". Don't get me wrong, the reliability of Amazon's information is almost zero past the ISBN but since it's the only source I can see, I ask. The binding field was left blank, which is okay if you're not sure of the correct term. One of the links in the Welcome message above will take you to the "Help Pages". From there select "Editing the ISFDB" which brings up a list of most of the things one can do to massacre... er... enter/change a publication. A new novel/collection/anthology will get you to [this] page. Scroll down to "formats" and the various types of publication bindings are shown. In this case, the Amazon description below the ISBN data has the size as 9x6 which is a "tp" (trade paperback). In the Catalog#/ISBN field, please put the number only. There is no need to add "ISBN-13:" or any other appendages. Books that pre-date ISBNs get their catalog numbers put here with a # sign in front, as in #123-456 or #F-368, whatever is on the book. Library of Congress numbers do not go in this field as they are not specific to a publication but rather to the title. These numbers can go in the notes. In the price field please prefix the amount with the appropriate currency symbol, $, £, €, whatever. Again the same help page in the previous link explains this. Finally, the picture. You've added it correctly, but with Amazon images, a little 'doctoring' is necessary. The URL link to the image is. All Amazon images have one thing in common, after the initial sequence of numbers/letters there is an "L." everything after that, except the file designation of 'jpg' or 'gif' should be erased. In this case the '_SS500_.' would go. That little bit gives the image a set of white bars on either side. I know it seems like a lot to absorb right off the bat, and yes the learning curve is steep to start, but we're here to help and it does get much easier. If in doubt ask and do check out the Help Pages. Again, welcome! ~Bill, --Bluesman 16:31, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


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