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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There is a good reason not to put the series number in the metadata. Because it's possible it can change. It can also be different depending if you read in chronological order or published order. For some series those two orders will be different. Also, how do you handle numbering a book of short stories that have stories that fit in different places in the series? Too many variables and the publishers have enough trouble sending their eBooks off to India to get them made by the lowest bidder.
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I've seen way too much of this in management. The fact that something is hard to administer is not a *good* reason for not doing it. It is a good reason for not rushing into it & doing it haphazardly though even if the need for it seems urgent.
Considering that we're talking ebooks here there's no good reason to have a 'book' of short stories rather than the stories being individually 'published'. Again, it's convenience for the publisher who generally doesn't care about the needs of the readers-after all, his 'customers' are the booksellers, not the readers.