Question on series taking one of a combined title

[Jozef]

What do we do when one book of a group of combined books is taken, adapted and made part of a series. If we add the one book to the series, all the rest of the combined books also become part of the series. Is there a way to stop it happening?

[Emy]

No, because by being combined they are implicitly the same entity. If they are not the same number in the series, then they are not the same entity and therefore shouldn't be combined. That's my understanding at least...

[Jozef]

an easy reading series has been created by taking existing books and adapting them so although they are essentially the same story, not all of them are part of the easy reading educational series. I've not looked at the the other books in the series but i'm guessing that the others are the same. The whole group has been included as being part of the series.
It's clearly wrong because they're not all part of the series but the only way I can see of stopping it is to separate the early easy reading books.

[Emy]

Double check the Manual, but I believe that adaptations shouldn't be combined with the original work.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Adaptations indeed shouldn't be combined with the original work. However, that also sounds like an imprint, not a series by GR standards.

[Jozef]

I don't really understand what an imprint is?

[Empress]

this is an imprint: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/62...

As far as I understand it. It is series by publisher on a specific subject. In the case science fiction master works as the title suggests. It's not series as the foundation from Asimov which is 7 books (they can be published by different publishers and still be series while imprints are usually series that are created by specific publisher or on a specific subject)

Edit: This is from the librarian manual:

Imprints and other unrelated collections of works (usually by multiple authors) are not series.

... they should not be grouped into a series, or listed on a book's title line.

As a general rule, a book is only part of a series if that designation would apply to all editions of a work. - this one I don't understand either.

Maybe I got it wrong!

[Jozef]

is a group of weekend craft books an imprint? they don't follow on, they're not by the same author, and the only connection is the publisher has put weekend before candles, mosaics etc

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Jozef wrote: "is a group of weekend craft books an imprint?"

Yes, probably.