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Originally Posted by ardeegee
No, there isn't. There is a huge disagreement between what I define as a serial and what you define as a serial, but there is no gray area to me within what I define as a serial. To me, a "serial" is: a longer work broken up into shorter segments for periodic publication that, at the end of the run, will be assembled into a single novel for publication. That isn't gray area, that is simply excluding everything else-- including TV series, series of novels, and comics-- from that definition. You may prefer to stretch the word until it is meaningless, but I choose not to.
I never, for one god damned minute, have said anything should be "banned." Stop trying to shove your words into my mouth. The question was "would you buy this"-- not "should we ban this." A "banning" is their own business decision that they will make for their own economic reasons.
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But that's what this thread is about - Marc Coker wants to know if he should restrict serials on Smashwords. You may not be talking about that, but that's damned well what WE'RE talking about.
It is important to come to terms with "what is a serial" even outside of that. Most serials don't fit in your definition of a serial. So do you want the rest of us to change what we call them?
This isn't just a theoretical argument about semantics - this is a discussion to decide on specific actions. It's important to work these things out.
You have good and valuable input here, but now that we're in this "Yes it is!" "No it isn't!" loop, it ceases to be helpful to those of us who have to make choices.
Camille