Re: problem with print vs ebookISBNs?

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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:55:39 -0500
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Stacey, that problem is because of bad instruction that Ingram Digital 
gave to publishers several years ago. (I was a victim myself.) I believe 
that the problem has now been corrected and you will see no further 
print editions and Ingram Digital offerings with the same ISBNs.

> Anyone else having a problem with downloading initial records from
> Ingrams/Coutts (or YBP for that matter) where you want the record for
> the print book but the ebook record downloads instead?  We are
> increasingly having a problem with Coutts/OCLC where our initial load
> contains the ebook record because the ISBN is the same - we want the
> print record and end up with the ebook record.  Or, we load the print
> record and the overlay is the ebook record.  So we have to spend extra
> time correcting the problem.  I keep reporting the issue to Coutts and
> am basically told that we are the only library having a problem!  I find
> that hard to believe.  Anyone else seeing this?

Sincerely,

Eric

Eric v.d. Luft, Ph.D., M.L.S.
Owner, Gegensatz Press, North Syracuse, New York
<www.gegensatzpress.com>
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