Hi Wendy,

From the Help Center:

Problem: You enter the ISBN on your paperback and the book Listing Preview says "hardcover". This means one of two things:

1.  Your book is an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC)

If your book is a paperback, and the ISBN brings up a Book Listing Preview that says "hardcover", please check your book to be sure it is not an ARC.   If it is an ARC, it cannot be Posted for swapping at PBS.

Solution: You can offer this book to others in the Book Bazaar Discussion Forum, but you cannot Post it to your PBS bookshelf.

2. The publisher chose to assign the same ISBN to more than one version of this title.

Publishers sometime choose to assign the same ISBN to multiple versions of a book.  However, PBS can attach only ONE booktype to the listing for an ISBN.  If your book does not have the booktype assigned to the ISBN in the PBS database, you will need to post it with a customized listing, using the Post a Book Without an ISBN link on the Post Books page, so that the booktype matches your book.

Solution: You will need to post this book with a customized listing for the book, using the Post Books without an ISBN link on the Post Books page.

Thanks!

I didn't know that was covered in the rules!

Question about this.... How would you know if it was ARC?  Does it say someplace inside the front cover?

If it's an ARC, it'll be hard to miss.   It is usually printed on the cover of the book.

Wendy, sometimes that happens if your copy is from the Quality Paperback Book Club.  It's postable (because it's not an ARC), but you have to post it as "no ISBN."

Thanks. I thought it would say it somewhere.  I just wasn't sure since i don't think I ever have had an ARC book in my possession.  :)