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It bothers me a little bit...though can be fun to find for a challenge, LOL.I think if I put all that work and heart into creating a novel, then someone else grabbed the same title, I'd be bummed big time. I think it would bother me less if the "other" book was a similar quality...but if it were just a piece of cr*p, I'd probably be wanting to throw a fit.
as a reader it didn't bother me until I joined GR :)..now I get annoyed when I have to scroll through all the same named books to find the one I want to add to my library or tbr list....
LOL...that is so true!
It can be confusing but it doesn't bother me too much because there are only so many words in every language and there are millions of books. Title length would become a problem very fast if they could only be used once. The choice of title is influenced by marketing/branding and the genre of the book which will limit the type of words available so it's inevitable for duplicates to appear.Some examples:
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Oh...let's start a list...the one I keep running across lately is
Lol this is a really opposite one but whenever someone comments on 'Heart of Darkness', I always get really confused, thinking they're talking about
instead of
which surprise! usually makes what they're saying actually make sense ;)
Ames, that's very true and an aspect of it I hadn't thought of (language diff).I'll flip through my lists and see if I can add to those y'all have found. I know I've run into a lot of them, just have to remember which they were.
I don't mind the duplicate title issue at all. I would rather have a book communicate it's intent well through the title than have something else forced instead.You also can come across a lot of good things to read just through all the duplicates coming up when you are searching for a title. :)
Very good point, Dana. :) I like that.
Ok, here goes my list of dupes:
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Ok, I'm gonna stop there b/c damn, I'm only in the B's. LOL! Suffice to say a lot of dupes out there. :)
LOL! See, that's why I asked. I have swarms of dupes. More than I realized, actually. It all started b/c I got an email about the upcoming anthology
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Woah! 3 books with the same one? And I think the books with one word titles like Awakening, Betrayed and Resurrection etc.. there'd be even more of these.
I have five with the title "Awakening" and three with "Betrayal". Lots of common names. I'm sure there are even more out there I don't have.
I've noticed this one loads! If I suspect there may be more than one book with the same title I have a tendency to search "Blood Magic Jennifer" it narrows it down loads. I used to have time to search through all the pages... Now my kiddies are growing up and getting even more demanding :)
There are loads of dupes out there - I've got several called Blue Moon. Publishers do intervene occasionally. The third Hush, Hush book was changed from Tempest to Silence because of the new book called Tempest coming out in January. The publishing house actually asked Becca Fitzpatrick if she'd mind changing her title to give Julie Cross's debut book a chance. Not only is it sweet that she did, she's also hyping the new book by telling everyone why the change :)
Wow! That's a lot'a dupes, Michelle. :)That's cool, Nairabell. Nice of them to talk to her about it and make the change for such a reason. Makes sense.
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Do you think it bothers an author when another author uses the same title as they did?
Just curious, what do ya'll think? I don't really care either way as a book buyer, but as an author I might be a little bummed. Although it could get confusing, I guess, if trying to determine which one someone was referring to.