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1kristincedar
Mar 9, 2015, 3:39 pm

I've noticed that some of the books on Early Reviewers, especially the Member Giveaways are given out, but they never make it to press. For example, Luminary by Tracy Marchini has never been published according to her website, and confirmed by facebook. I know A Debate With An Economist by Sérgio Afonso is the same as well. Is there any way we can remove them from the LT website?

http://www.librarything.com/work/11451593
http://www.librarything.com/work/15276314

2lorax
Mar 9, 2015, 3:40 pm

No, you cannot remove anyone else's data from LibraryThing. People are free to enter non-existent books.

3MarthaJeanne
Mar 9, 2015, 4:05 pm

Besides they are not non-existant, just unpublished.

4DanieXJ
Mar 9, 2015, 4:06 pm

ER and MG are two different things. And if you don't get the book that's been won on MG I do believe it doesn't hurt your chances of getting one on ER.

5lorax
Mar 9, 2015, 4:13 pm

>4 DanieXJ:

This post really has nothing to do with either ER or MG. People have entered books that were not published, and the OP is upset about it. That these happened to be ER or MG offerings is beside the point.

6lesmel
Mar 9, 2015, 4:37 pm

A Debate With An Economist has zero members...won't that title eventually disappear? Also, it looks like Luminary was added by the author. If she deleted her copy, it would also be a zero member title at some point, right?

7MarthaJeanne
Mar 9, 2015, 5:38 pm

0 copy editions don't disappear. They just don't show on the author page.

8DanieXJ
Mar 10, 2015, 12:15 am

>5 lorax: The OP seemed to be implying that MG was connected to ER. And since it looks like both books are MG books, I simply stated a couple of facts to either help educate the OP, or for the OP to ignore.