Kind of a random question, but Natively couldn’t connect the two books in the same series, 店長がバカすぎて | L30 and 新! 店長がバカすぎて | L30?? because amazon doesn’t have a series page for it.
The blurb of the second book clearly states that it is the second volume:
今なお売れ続けている『店長がバカすぎて』、熱望の第2幕
but I wonder if someone would read the first volume and miss that the series goes on… Isn’t there a way to manually make the series from the admin side?
(Based on the numbering of the 単行本, I think the series page will be created once the 単行本 of the second volume comes out, but it’s still strange on amazon’s part)
We absolutely can do this, we just default to the Amazon page without explicit data from users.
I’m not seeing your feedback that you sent in @Naphthalene, but if you send feedback on the series page with the learnnatively url for the first volume, we can fix it up!
When I added volume two, I mentioned in the notes that it belonged to a series, with a link to volume one, then I got an email saying something of the effect of “we were unable to find a series page; please send the link”, but there’s indeed no series page on amazon. I’ll send a feedback on the first volume, then!
@brandon This was happening before, so I’ll put it here instead of the infrastructure post, I just felt something was weird but I couldn’t really put my finger in what it was in the user lists page.
Question: why do a lot of series say “Various Authors” when they’re often from just one author? (I was looking at Dragon Ball today, because of the news, and it doesn’t seem… right). Is the auto-pull from Amazon ingesting things like publisher credits or something?
In this case it’s because of a data issue I’ve seen before with other series. Amazon isn’t always consistent about whether it puts spaces between Japanese author first name and surname, and Natively doesn’t do any filtering to put them into a canonical form. So the “various authors” are 鳥山明 and 鳥山 明…
You can file a feedback note on the book/series to get it made consistent, but that only deals with the one instance of the problem.
For resyncing a series from Amazon, is it better to wait until the new volume is out of “preorder” state and immediately purchasable, or does it not matter?
If the series already exists and is only missing the newest volume on Natively, I’ve been re-syncing only when that newest volume has a cover. If the Natively series is missing multiple volumes, I’ll re-sync regardless of of the latest volume has a cover or not on Amazon.
I should probably wait until the newest book out off preorder, but I figured it wouldn’t matter too much, especially if people are only occasionally checking series for new stuff they haven’t read yet.
