Official urls for books without an official landing page

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So I've recently noticed that some books published in English don't have official publisher landing pages, like Goodbye, Heron is published by Media Do for PRINTEMPS PUBLISHING, who don't appear to have an English website. While I'm filling the description with links to storefronts, is there a preferred style or format? Also, what goes in the Official English URL field in this case? I've seen some entries put a random storefront there, like amazon or bookwalker, but that feels like preferencing one storefront over others.

EDIT: clarified wording

EDIT 2: stack of links got removed, preferred style appears to be no links to official sources in this case?
 
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"Official english" is url to series description on publisher's site. Something like this.

Edit: for those storefronts links there's "retail" section.
 
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The point I'm making is that some publishers don't bother with landing pages or series descriptions, looks like stuff contracted to Media Do generally don't. Also, retail links generally are for original language versions, though it might make sense for retail links to English or other store fronts to be added, idk if a suggestion for that exists or not.
 
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Aren't Media Do just distributor but not publisher? You know it's different things.
 
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Yeah, not great wording on my part, kinda meant when they're in charge of the English translation and release for some Japanese publishers, not really having much branding presence in the release. Using the word publish there wasn't great considering that has a pretty specific meaning regarding books.

But yeah, what do when no official English landing page?

EDIT: Looks like the stack of retail links got removed by someone though, so I guess this site prefers no links to official sources in this case then. Kinda disappointing wrt piracy and all.
 

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