series with seasons

[Miss Pageturner]

Hello,
once again a series question (sorry)
I have come across a series that is divided into seasons. What would the numbering on the series page look like?

Would you create a separate series page for each season and put the reference to the other seasons in the info text?

Or would you create one series page for everything and work with decimal numbers, as with bonus volumes and short stories?

again, thanks for you helping out a new librarian

[L J]

Miss Pageturner wrote: "Hello,
once again a series question (sorry)
I have come across a series that is divided into seasons. What would the numbering on the series page look like?

Would you create a separate series page..."

To start I'd look at the author's website, see how they have it.

[Michele]

Great question, looking forward to the answer as I have seen many of these lately.

As a side note, I find it very odd that people are doing books as "seasons", as if they were tv shows. I mean, what's that all about? Kids today, tsk ;)

I suppose the numbering could be S1E1, S1E2, S1E3, S2E1, and so on. Would that be acceptable?

[L J]

Michele wrote: "Great question, looking forward to the answer as I have seen many of these lately.

As a side note, I find it very odd that people are doing books as "seasons", as if they were tv shows. I mean, w..."

I thought this season thing came from episodic stories like on Vella.

I've seen no policy on Vella other than they have to be complete to add to database and only complete book is considered a book. Completed book gets added to the database with the ASIN for the completed book. Episodes are not books by Goodreads standards.

If we are talking about something other than episodic fiction could be we need clear policy from mod before we end up with several styles of series and numbering. For right now I'd go with standard Goodreads series numbering not season and episode.

edited for clarification

[Emily]

Miss Pageturner wrote: "Hello,
once again a series question (sorry)
I have come across a series that is divided into seasons. What would the numbering on the series page look like?"

If you provide a link to where the books can be found, we can look at it.

[Michele]

Here are a couple of examples:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[Miss Pageturner]

They are e-books of a self puplishing author. As far as I know she has always published them as e-books and they are not from a site like vella or wattpad. The author divides with the seasons I think the years. It seems to be about a horse boarding school and each season deals with a new cohort of students.

Here ist the author page on goodreads. Some books have the decimal numbering in the title, other not. It is very inconsistent:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

on amazon as you see in this example: the have "season 2, volume 15" in the title
https://www.amazon.de/Viel-los-Stall-...

[Miss Pageturner]

It would be great if you could insert blocks/headings between the books in the list on the series page. Then you could do everything on one page and still mark the sections of the seasons.

[annob [on hiatus]]

L J wrote: "...For right now I'd go with standard Goodreads series numbering not season and episode."

I agree this is the best approach, to have as few 'special cases' as possible.

Usually I try to find older examples as guides. I've found a similar series to Michele's example (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...)

GR series page: https://www.goodreads.com/series/2307...
Amz series page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DBHHGQR

My example has episode and season info skipped on the GR pages in favour of standard series numbering - which happens to be the same as the Amazon series numbering so shouldn't "confuse" readers too much. (Season 2 starts with book 14). In both mine and Michele's example each book have its unique title, so the episode info isn't really needed in the main title to figure out which is episode 1, 2, 3 etc.

In other cases the episode info might need to be part of the main title to not end up with dozens of works with exactly the same title.

The above is my opinion only, and of course welcome others to add their voices too.

[Liralen]

Here's the author's website page for the series I think you mean: http://sina-trelde.de/pferdeinternat-...

I'm guessing that the decision to do seasons within the series came later, when she got past book 38 and the main characters were married and still still wanted to continue the series. Right now it's 38 books in 'Season 1' (following Lilly, then Lilly and Dennis), 20 books in 'Season 2' (following Lilly and Dennis and their friends...and, appearing midway through the series description, their apparently semi-grown children), and 1 book in 'Season 3' (following their children, and by extension Lilly and Dennis).

In the absence of a GR policy on series seasons—and since these books all have different names—I agree with others that consecutive numbering, without season decimals, would be most consistent with current policy. (I could also see an argument for separate series pages, but personally I wouldn't really consider season decimals as an option since it's quite a departure from current GR numbering standards.)