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Originally Posted by hobnail
While I agree I suspect that the publishers force the authors to try and make the books appear to be standalone; a lot of these types of books are being sold in the bookstores in airports where people are looking for something to read on their flight. And the covers are unlikely to give any clue that the book is part of a series.
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For example, on the cover of the book
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, it says A Novel of Discworld. In reading that, I would know that the book is part of a series and that I had not read it yet and look up what the first book was to see if the shop had it.