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...struction on building public ISFDB backup files at [[ISFDB:How To Create a Public Backup File]]. ...er:Fixer#Fixer_Dumps_and_Lists]], for ISBN and ASIN data files used by the Fixer robot to submit new publications.

...robotically identified ISBNs was enabled in July 2018 -- see [[User:Fixer/Public]] for the current process ...ty IDs (OCLC, BLIC, LCCN, BNF, ASIN, Goodreads, etc).</s> This will enable Fixer to submit ebooks without ISBNs, an increasingly common scenario.

...er than six months do exist, but possibly only on some unavailable (to the public) storage medium. That would mean, in effect, that those issues don't 'exist ...abled. In those cases, it's relatively straightforward. It's the ones that Fixer is submitting with a price of $1.99, that Amazon shows a price when I check

:: A little googling finds the [https://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ampm.html following quote] (note the bad HTTPS conne ...ceived an author request not to add her pseudonyms which had not been made public at that point. That's when we amended our Policy to say that "only publicly

...to know when things were published in the sense of "made available to the public". Hope this wasn't annoyingly long. [[User:PatConolly|PatConolly]] 12:54, 1 ...K then, how would you define "webzine"? I might try "A site intended for a public audience, which adds new content of fiction or feature articles somewhat re

...not tightly integrated with the rest of database. (Nor is it a part of the public backups.) If anything, we are trying to move more data from the Wiki to the ...e publisher or distributor are in." I would set a much higher standard for Fixer if it ever bulk processes ebooks.--[[User:Swfritter|swfritter]] 21:27, 18 M

...y publication records. (And in this case, my purpose was for searching out public domain items, for eventual inclusion into Gutenberg).[[User:Kpulliam|Kpulli ...sense that the term is usually understood. As long as they are sold to the public, you could argue that they represent just another (albeit raw) Publication

== Fixer submissions - how low do we go? == :It's not quite as bad as it may appear. As I work Fixer submissions, I tend to go for the low hanging fruit first, so borderline ca

...t, except in the instances Chavey mentions. (For example, someone taking a public domain work and releasing an ebook for purchase on Amazon would be consider ...e Gutenberg ebook and sells it on Amazon (which is what many of the Amazon public domain works are) it is suddenly a new work. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTo

...edition" concept. We consider them "published" even though 99.999% of the public had no access to them. ...ughts now that I am feeling better and can do more than mindlessly process Fixer's data:

...tations to allow traceback? Do the existing automatic loaders (e.g. / i.e. Fixer) provide their source(s) in the notes now? And as a final note, setting thi ...some of the data is not coming from the main Amazon record. So yes - in a Fixer originated pub, the details are sourced (and dated).

...RCs", i.e. electronic copies of forthcoming books that ''are'' sold to the public, are "in"? They don't appear to be any different than any other book first ...ussions take time and most of my ISFDB time is spent on software fixes and Fixer. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 04:53, 24 October 2012 (UTC)