Alright. Hi folks. So, it's come to my attention that Disney–Lucasfilm Press has gotten in the habit of recycling content from major titles like The Original Trilogy Stories and repackaging them into abridged eBooks.
Star Wars: A New Hope: 6 stories in 1 is an abridged version of The Original Trilogy Stories. It's the same art, stories, and credited authors, just with a smaller selection of titles. There are a good number of eBooks just like this, mostly collecting Original Trilogy Stories and The Prequel Trilogy Stories. You can see an example for Prequel Trilogy Stories that has yet to receive a page here. You'll notice that Disney–Lucasfilm, on the Amazon page, list this "6 stories in 1" title to be the eBook version of Prequel Trilogy Stories. They're linked to each other.
Another example is 5-Minute Star Wars Stories Strike Back, where we just merged the eBook into the page for the original book.
My question is, how ought we standardize this? I'm leaning toward merging the abridged eBooks into the original article since there's functionally nothing different about the eBooks other than a title/cover change and a smaller selection of stories contained therein. Would this be reasonable? Dentface (talk) 22:17, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
- Sounds good, any differences in the ebook could probably just be noted on the page for the original book if it's necessary Lewisr (talk) 04:54, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, unless they're a collection of stories from different titles or something, they're just versions of the same original work, with some of the content omitted. Merging/redirecting them to the original title would suffice. OOM 224 21:47, 14 January 2022 (UTC)