THE Group for Authors! discussion

I recently withdrew my copyright from my previous (Vanity) publisher to sell my debut book at amazon.com and third parties to self-publish with Create Space. I need help with How to put my recently re-published 2nd Edition into Goodreads. Can anyone help please?

I would ask for help at the GR Librarians group, which is here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/220 .

Thank you, Susanna! Cheers.

I published with Canadian Trafford in 2001 before they were purchased by a US company. In 2012 I pulled the copyright from them and had the book completely redesigned as the 10 year anniversary edition. from Fjord to Floathouse is now on Amazon in print and Kindle version but what I'm having trouble with is getting Trafford to remove the digital version from my site there. Especially since I didn't ever give permission for them to digitize it.

Myrtle, come to think of it, I must've been in the same boat. When I google my name and title of my debut book, 'The Call of Love,' I find that three of the Australian government libraries have my book available in digitalised form. I'm still corresponding with the agent how this came about and whether they paid a stipend or royalty my ex-publisher. Or if not, whether I should be paid royalty since it's my copyright. I also found countless third parties in the UK and EU advertising sale of my book either in hard copies or digitally though goodness knows how or if royalty is paid to the publisher as my publisher (exed now) didn't send me statements or royalty payments! Hence, I withdrew my copyright and self-published with Create Space where all is transparent and they pay even if the royalty's a pittance. I'm still dealing with the third parties issue but given up on getting the royalties from my ex-publisher ( their clever trick is to put it in the contract that royalties under £5 per biannual are not worth their effort to pay writers, a contract I paid nearly £1500 for, to get my book published) . It's a shame there're no ombudsman to support writers and see to it that we're not cheated by unscrupulous (vanity) publishers. Finally, as in your case,I wasn't aware how my book came to be digitalised by all kinds of sources unfamiliar to me - I was told only amazon.com and Kindle would sell my ebook.