Re: Series

Not just children's titles. Nested series -- and intersecting series, where one book is #7 in one series and #3 in another -- are reasonably common in scholarly monograph publishing.

And a single series might have multiple sequential orderings. Compare publication order with narrative order, for example (my usual example is The Chronicles of Narnia, where Voyage of the Dawn Treader can be #3 or #5, but you could equally consider Star Wars or anything with a 'prequel'). Again, films may have done this already.

Graham
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On 15 Feb 2013, at 15:23, Laura Dawson wrote:

That's a good idea, actually. One thing that concerned me initially was the fact that particularly with children's titles, series have series within series (it's a marketing thing - get a kid hooked on a series, and then start up a sub-series). We spent a lot of time grappling with this at Barnes & Noble.com<http://Noble.com>. But then I remembered Law & Order and CSI - and yeah, I bet the TV structure already has this covered.

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Looking at the Google Knowledge Graph display for Dune Messiah <http://www.google.co.uk/#q=dune+messiah> reminds me that we need to address the issue of series.

Do we follow the model of TVSeries and TVEpisode – at least we would not have to worry about a TVSeason equivalent ;-)

Then of course there are serials, but I think we should hold off opening that can of worms until we have agreed some of the simpler stuff!

~Richard.