What to do with series with same ISBN?

[Vasha7]

As far as I can figure out from Worldcat, there is a whole series of Chinese translations of Stephen King's books that all have the same ISBN (7806076506). It is currently listed with the title "Pet Cemetary" [sic] but the 132 reviews refer to all different books, I think. Worldcat has separate entries for the various volumes.

Should we create an entry for each book, putting the ISBN only as a note? An entry for the whole series? Both?

Whichever course we take, I'm going to need the help of a Chinese speaker to write the new entries.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Were/are they sold as a set, or as individual volumes?

[Vasha7]

rivka wrote: "Were/are they sold as a set, or as individual volumes?"

Two of them are available separately on Amazon.cn. They seem to be listed as "Stephen King Horror Novel Series: [Booktitle]".

The series as a whole is not listed on Amazon.cn.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

How they are available on Amazon is not the question. How the publisher originally made them available for sale is.

[Vasha7]

Well... I have done a Google search for "斯蒂芬•金恐怖小说续集" (i.e. "Stephen King Horror Novel Series") and it seems that most stores are selling individual volumes for 10 or 20 yuan apiece. One store (http://www.bijia114.cn/book/kongbu/65...) has 5 of them for 100 yuan.

This Douban information page http://book.douban.com/series/1430 lists all (?) the books in the series, which is 8, one of them being two volumes.

So, I would say that they're not sold as a unit, by anyone. No publisher page that I can find.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Then I would create a separate book page for each volume.

[Vasha7]

Will do... I will leave the ISBN in the proper fields for "Pet Sematary" because that has a bunch of reviews attached to it, but add a nice big note about the ISBN situation to the top of the description field. Then I will create entries for the other books in the series.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Sounds like a plan. :)