Manage Imported Books

Your books' details is automatically imported into Authorbase and merged with existing books if possible. If you notice that some of the details are not accurate or need to move a sales source to an existing book, follow this tutorial.

Update the book details

1. Navigate to Manage > Books.
2. Scroll or search until you find the book you want to manage.
3. Click Actions > Edit next to the book.
4. You can now update the book information.

• Book Cover: Click on the Remove Cover button to delete, or Browse button to upload a new cover.
• Book Title: Edit the title in the designated field.
• Book Subtitle: If you have one, you can add it.
• Series Information: Specify standalone, series placement, or bundle status.
• Author: Correct the author's name via a dropdown menu.
• Release date: Select the correct release date.
• Tags: Manage book categorization tags.
• Chart Color: Pick a chart representation color for this title.

4. Click on Step 2 when you are ready.
5. Add additional Publishing Details. These details are used to help you speed up your publishing process, but are not necessary to use Authorbase.

• Book description
• Keywords
• Price
• Language
• eISBN
• Print ISBN

6. Click Done to save your information.

Merge books

Do you have duplicates of the same book? Don't worry, you can easily merge them!

1. Navigate to Manage > Books.
2. Scroll or search until you find the book you want to merge.
3. Click Actions > Merge.
4. Using the search feature or the pagination system, find the book you want to merge with.
5. Click on Select.
6. Confirm that the information is right. You can click cancel to start over.
7. If everything looks good, you can click Confirm.

Note: It's not possible to unmerge books, but you can always create a new book and move an edition to another book.