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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
Interesting. So the epub tags are stored as a form of XML in the opf file. I must pull apart the epub format sometime.
However, the approach you use depends on the publisher of the epub adding all the author names to the epub in the first place. (I wonder how they do that?) Are there many cases where a publisher will not add the multiple author names to the epub anthology accurately, if at all...
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Most publishers do include all the authors though they will sometimes add the editor(s) to the author list—the list I included was direct from the ebook.
If you use calibre to download metadata, it will overwrite the list in the opf file with the downloaded one when you send the epub to a device or save to disk. You can modify this list in calibre's Edit metadata. As an alternate, if you are already editing the ebook to correct other errors, you can also use Sigil or calibre's editor to do some manual metadata editing.
See
EPUB Packages 3.2 for more information on the opf file.