At some point in the last 18 months or so, BL imports started conflating kindle and ebook records, combining them into one edition with a Kindle format. This has caused much grumpiness, as kindle lovers want their records to say kindle and show the ASIN but all the other ebook readers want their editions format to say ebook and include the IBSN number.

Fortunately, librarians can split them apart. So if you run across any of these records and show any of the classic signs of irritation about it, this is what you can do:

1. On the book edition page, click the 'report' icon (it has a little flag next to it).

2. Choose "other" from the drop down list and then in the comments just type 'please split out the kindle edition from this record' or words to that effect; something to let the librarians know what you want done.

3. Click submit. That's it - the librarians will receive it in the queue and process it as soon as possible.

Good things to know:
- this is not the fastest process so it might not get done as quick as edits or new book approvals.

- Yes you could try to edit the record to just remove the ASIN or the ISBN but if the librarian doesn't reject it, the deleted number will just get put back in. (This applies to librarians who try to do it this way themselves too, fyi.) This is because when the ASIN or the ISBN is searched for, BL's database 'updates' the edition with the missing number.

So for example, someone goes in and edits a record to remove the ISBN (which is A Very Bad Thing). It's saved and approved. I then go in and do a search for the ISBN (the one that had been removed). When BL doesn't find the ISBN, it queries Amazon, which returns with "here's the record, but we're sticking the ASIN number in too, because we're Amazon" and BL's db says - but there's already a record with that ASIN so we'll just update it with the 'missing' ISBN and voila! We're right back were we started.

This is why it's best to file a book report - so the librarian can remove the ASIN and immediately create a new edition for it as a kindle. Then when someone searches for either the kindle or the ISBN, BL will find the appropriate edition, and Amazon keeps its nose out. Happiness and rainbows.

Librarians should split out the ASIN rather than the ISBN because as an international site the ISBN will be more relevant to most users and because ASINs change over time, but ISBNs are forever. ;-)