# Co-author credits for an indie book: is this a terrible idea?

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**Created:** [October 20, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/co-author-credits-for-an-indie-book-is-this-a-terrible-idea/671713 "2013-10-20T06:12:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/co-author-credits-for-an-indie-book-is-this-a-terrible-idea/671713/21 "2013-10-21T23:04:51Z")

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> [@grayhairedmomma](#):
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> Just chiming in as a reader. It would irritate me a little bit to see the book with both a different cover and different author order, if only because I’d have to look a lot more closely than should be necessary at each book to make sure they were the same thing.
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> Will the blurbs for each version be the same?
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> Good luck to you!

Thanks, **grayhairedmomma**! Very good to hear more input, even if it’s not what I’d hoped to hear. 🙂 Yes, the blurbs will be the same, as will the ISBNs, so on sites such as (say) Goodreads, they’ll indicate that these are the same novels just a different edition. [Here’s an example, for Nora Roberts’ _Divine Evil_](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3341016-divine-evil). In addition to including the librarian’s note that it’s an alternate edition, if you scroll down you see that there’s a list of other editions with cover images.

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