What's the difference between Author and Original Author?
Under Function(s), choose Author for the person who created the version of the book you're registering. Choose Original Author only for the person whose work your book is based on, adapted from or translated from.
| Your book | Author | Original Author |
|---|---|---|
| You wrote it from scratch | You | Nobody |
| You translated another person's book | You | The writer of the original |
| You adapted or modernized an existing work | You | The writer of the original |
For example, if you translated The Little Prince, you're the Author and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the Original Author. If you modernized a Jane Austen novel, you're the Author and Jane Austen is the Original Author.
Check your contributors before you submit. After registration, you can change a contributor's functions and biography, but you can't add or remove contributors, and we can only make small corrections to names.
If you're not sure which function fits, ask us through the help widget.