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When adding information about a book, you have a few options. You can enter the basic data for the...

When adding information about a book, you have a few options. You can enter the basic data for the abstract idea of the book (e.g., author, date, genre), or you can enter data about a specific edition of a book. You can also enter information about a book’s contents, translations, etc. Much of the information about a book, such as author, copyright date, and language, will be entered in properties on the type Written work. See Entering Data for All Written Works for more information. The B ook type contains additional information about the book that will be true of all versions of the book. This also allows any articles or discussion about the book itself to be on one central place, rather than spread across several editions. Information about specific editions such as publisher and ISBN should be entered in the B ook edition type (see below).  A Book edition represents a specific publication of a book. Print, audio, and electronic versions of books can all be represented as book editions. Note that we are not, for the most part, interested in tracking separate printings of an edition, except in rare cases where there has been significant change between printings (such as a new cover or additional contents). The simplest way to enter a book edition that is a translation is to enter it as an edition of the work. In this case, you should title the edition with the book’s name in the new language (or as close as you can make it with your keyboard, since Freebase doesn’t currently handle some non-Latin alphabets well). Note that you cannot enter the translator or the language of the translation. If you want to enter this data, see “Entering a Translated Work of Literature”. If you would like to add the contents of a book, see Entering Contents of a Book or Periodical. Note, however, that this is currently a somewhat complex operation. See also Entering Special Kinds of Books for information about entering omnibuses and other unusual types of books. To enter data for excerpts and serial installments of a book, see Entering Serialized and Excerpted Works of Literature.