On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 09:33 -0400, Tom Morris wrote:
> I'd be in favor of deleting all non-book cruft with ISBN numbers like
> this, including calendars, blank diaries, multi-packs, posters,
> promotional displays, and CDs.  Just because something has been
> assigned an ISBN number to that it can be sold in a book store,
> doesn't make it a book. 

I agree in general.  I would perhaps make an exception or clarification
on multi-packs of the same book.

It does not make sense to me to keep the multi-pack as a separate
edition record, but it does make sense to me to keep the ISBN for it as
an additional or alternate ISBN on the proper edition.  

If somebody does search by ISBN, and that ISBN is only associated with
that legitimate book, why wouldn't we want to have the search be
successful?

- Alan


_______________________________________________
Ol-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to 
[email protected]

Reply via email to