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Originally Posted by Colonel Cathcart
Why aren't ebook tags much more richer, comparable to those of music files? language, original language, published, original published year, translator, awards (multiple instances of that tag, potentially). Wouldn't it be great if a properly tagged book library could be sorted by author and original published date or could generate a collection of the books that won or were short listed, say, for a Booker?
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You can, of course, do all that yourself for the books in your own calibre library.
But there's no incentive for the publishers to include all that info in an ebook's metadata. It won't increase sales, and it costs money to add the data and check it's correct.
Now if someone could come up with way of fingerprinting ebooks, so that the contents could be uniquely identified, as can be done with, for example, CDs, perhaps someone could come up with an equivalent of CDDB or MusicBrainz - a crowd-source repository of accurate metadata.