Jeremias Gonzalez <jerzor@pacbell.net> writes:

>> Do I understand correctly that you attempted to run org-bibtex-read from
>> a non-bibtex buffer?
>>
>
> At a top level, I was using org-bibtex-yank with an org buffer (and in my
> ideal case with no bibtex buffers whatsoever) as the documentation for that
> function only requires bibtex to be in the kill ring. However, yes,
> org-bibtex-yank calls org-bibtex-read, and I was doing so (in the ideal
> case) with a non-bibtex buffer.

Does the attached patch fix the problem?