Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:02:19 -0400
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com, WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Amazon starts SF imprint
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

A publishing line with the same name as a book isn't quite the same as a
book with the same title as a story.

Re-using the title of a book that isn't well known isn't good, but
re-using the title of a story that is one of the better known titles in
a genre seems at best unwise, and at worst a sign that you don't know
what you are doing.

-- Mike B.

On 10/11/2011 3:31 PM, samlubell at verizon.net wrote:
>
> For that matter, Pocketbooks had a publishing line called Timescape,
> which was a Benford novel.
> And the reuse of titles for books goes back a long way. Asimov wasn't
> the first to have a book called I, Robot for instance.
>
> Oct 11, 2011 03:40:45 PM, wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
>      > "Mike B." 10/11/2011 11:30 AM
>      >>>>
>      >On 10/11/2011 9:26 AM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>      >> http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000715991
>      >
>      >Is it a bad sign when they know so little about the genre that
>      >they
>      >re-use the title of a classic?
>
>     Like this: "Foundation: Book One of the Collegium Chronicles" ??
>     http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Collegium-Chronicles-Valdemar-Novel/dp/0756405769/