User:Waitingforspring/Editions

This tutorial contains some tips and tricks I use when searching for foreign Warriors editions, such as finding out if the books were released in a certain language, how are they called, and how the covers look like. Being fascinated by cultures and languages, I always enjoyed searching for them and building up a database with different editions; and now I decided to share my tricks with the other contributors as well so they could

Searching
To see if Warriors was released in a certain language, I usually do a Google search on "Erin Hunter", with results in the said language. As the wiki already lists all known foreign releases, this search has to be done only from time to time, to see if new language editions are present.

Latin Alphabet
Load Google in your browser and click on the "Advanced Search" link. Type "Erin Hunter" in the search box, select a language (e.g. German) from the drop-down list in Tools, and click the button. Browse the results that seem the most relevant; use Google Translate to make something of the pages that seem interesting. Also, click the Images link on the search page to see book covers (and the pages they are included in) and other Warriors-related material in that language.

Other Alphabets
This is tricky, as searching on "Erin Hunter" in e.g. Japanese pages won't turn up anything. Fortunately, Google Translate is there to help. Write "Erin Hunter" in the translation box, and translate in the said language; e.g. it will give "エリンハンター" in Japanese. Now, plug it in google search and browse the results.

Known Editions
Here I list known foreign pages, to be used for referencing.
 * Chinese (Traditional Chinese, released in Taiwan)
 * warriors.morningstar.com.tw is the official site of the publisher, and here is a list of books
 * This wiki article lists all books, and all books have stand-alone articles, showing the cover, release date etc. To get more info on a book (covers etc), plug the title in google search (e.g. "午夜追蹤" for "Midnight" - you can figure out which is which from the navbox on the bottom), and browse the results and images
 * Chinese (Simplified Chinese, released in China)

more to come...