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message 1: by Sharon (new)

Sharon Robinson | 10 comments Hi, I created a series for the Amazon Original Stories "Out of Line" collection. Since all the other Amazon Original Stories collections are shown as series, I thought this one should be too, but it has apparently been deleted. Does anyone know why?


message 2: by Scott (new)

Scott | 9670 comments I'm not familiar with it but it probably did not fit GR's definition of a series, which is for the books to actually be connected to one another.

If you can link to one or more of them we can take a look.


message 3: by Sharon (new)

Sharon Robinson | 10 comments Sure, thanks. Here are the two previously existing series:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/2990...
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2990...

Here is the first book in the series I tried to create;

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Here is is on Amazon, where they call it a series:
https://smile.amazon.com/This-Telling...

In fact all of the items from all three serieses are short stories, so I could see questioning that, but if they don't qualify, let's delete the other two for consistency.

Thanks again!


message 4: by Emily (last edited Sep 14, 2020 04:31PM) (new)

Emily | 17645 comments Series on Goodreads require a shared universe or characters, or an overarching storyline.
Someone else deleted those.


message 5: by Scott (new)

Scott | 9670 comments The stories do not have anything to do with one another, so they would not be considered a series here. "Amazon Originals" would be more of an imprint.

As an alternative, a List could be made, if there isn't already one.


message 6: by Sharon (new)

Sharon Robinson | 10 comments Okay, that makes sense, but then shouldn't the other two series be removed for consistency?


message 7: by Emily (new)

Emily | 17645 comments Sharon wrote: "Okay, that makes sense, but then shouldn't the other two series be removed for consistency?"

The links in your post don't work. I assumed they had been deleted.


message 8: by Sharon (new)

Sharon Robinson | 10 comments Sorry, Emily, you're correct. They've been changed sometime between my second post and now. One of them has the so called series added to the titles instead. I'm going to drop this because it seems someone else is also working on it, I'll let them figure it out. Thank you all for your input!


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