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Originally Posted by cybmole
I keep a lot of expired library loan metadata in calibre ( as a way of knowing what I've previously borrowed - because Overdrive cannot keep a history)
I noticed that other day that I now have over 400 different "publishers" in my calibre library tag browser - the entries look mostly sensible but why so many?
- do publishers create a myriad of off-shoots & then abandon them a few books later?.
- do publishers "die" for tax reasons & get reborn with new names ?
it would be reasonable to assume that calibre picks up the metadata from the library books OK, and that library books, being retail editions, should not have junk metadata
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It is all GIGO.
The coders do what they will.
I even noticed that with Baen (a major source of my Library content
)
Baen
Baen Books
Baen Pub
Baen Publishing Enterprises
My personal choice is not for the Parent Publisher, but for the
Publishers Imprint as used on the book titlepage (and that is almost never correct in those metadata sources):
Baen Fantasy
Baen Science Fiction
Baen
BTW Coding content from House stylesheets seems to suffer the same lack of Quality of consistency.