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Someone changed the default cover!!!! Not cool!!!!

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AℳY♔Queen of Fat cats♔Ain't no lie Baby Byebyebye Replica of this discussion and my petition:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hey, Guys!!
Watashi wa Amy-chan desu
*bows*
I'm a Goodread addict and spend way too much time here, searching for books, voting in lists, upvoting cool reviews and interacting with friends so I notice right away when weird things happen. And you know what? Weird thing happens all the freaking time to successful AMYZING, AWESOMETACULAR authors who aren't part of the circle of the big five publishing houses.

Our case of study today is a little hidden gem that BTW I highly recommend to any fan of contemporary/historical clean romance and TFIOS fans:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

So so good!
Okay, fangirling mode over and I'll explain. Most books out there have several editions with different covers. Goodreads staff, authors and librarians can establish their default edition. The default edition is the one that will appear in searches. For this book the default edition up until last week was
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
so that, just as recently as last week, whenever you entered a search for Making faces the cover you got was this one
Making Faces by Amy Harmon

Beautiful, isn't it? As good as the book!!!

But guess what? Someone, a librarian or an employee changed the default edition. That makes the old cover of this book the default result.
Making Faces by Amy Harmon
That happens to be the smashwords edition. And guess what? The smashwords edition ISN'T AVAILABLE!!! Anyone who wants to get this book and clicks on the purchase links...WILL GET A BROKEN LINK!!! Besides every ebook in the KU program is an AMAZON EXCLUSIVE. It's not like whoever did this change didn't know that. The only place that should have Making faces as ebook is AMAZON!! No smashwords, no scribd, no Kobo. Amazon.
So this affects the flow of sales for Harmon sensei, and the availibility of the ebook for potential purchasers. And trust me, you don't want to miss a book by Amy Harmon, she's that good. Yet this little change done by someone affects the purchasing links. How's that?I Not cool!!!

So if among you guys there's a cool GR librarian please fix this. It's the right way to do it.

To tell you the truth, I think of cool librarians as an endangered species as it seems lately that the only people who get approved for librarian status or get hired for goodreads positions are the ones that favor the old ways: agents ruling the publishing world, traditional publishers ruling the reading trends... it's like weird things happen only to certain kind of books and publishers (KU and mass market paperbacks), never to the big five and their overpriced releases that Goodreads keeps trying to push down our throats...or our Newsfeed that's almost the same thing.

It could be a coincidence, the second "coincidence" a KU author has suffered in the past month. But okay, let's leave it a coincidence. I'll give you guys that. But can someone fix this coincidence before I start to think the worst?

Please anyone? any cool librarian here? Could you please fix this mess? ONEGAIIII!! Please Making faces default version should be the KU version because that's how things were just last week before someone messed up with the edition.

Yours sincerly
A.M.Y.


AℳY♔Queen of Fat cats♔Ain't no lie Baby Byebyebye Update:

Someone, I don't know who but they're cool people, fixed the problem and then someone else (not cool) changed again for the smashwords cover.

So please don't tell me this is a coincidence. It's not a slip of the editing feature. It was done on purpose.

The default cover is a huge deal!!!! like HUGE!!! It's the cover that will come first in a search and therefore should be the updated cover unless Amy Harmon sensei herself indicates otherwise.

Anyone who gets this result won't get a link of purchase. The person who changed default edition KNEW this.


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