Why does Logos list forward-writers, narrators, etc. like coauthors?

My previous bug report is an extreme case; but in general, crediting smaller contributors the same as full coauthors is at least confusing if not misleading at times.

Moreover, it often leads me to leave Logos and go to a competitor site, where they distinguish each contributor link with some nonhyperlinked text e.g.

"(Author)" who should be given the main credit.
"(Forward)" who wrote relatively little.
"(Narrator)" for an audiobook, who I'll grant invested significant effort, but didn't write any of it.

Why doesn't Logos do that? OK, I can hear now that adding such metadata for your 6-figure inventory would be overwhelming, so how about at least starting to distinguish authors for newly added works?

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HJ. van der Wal

Translators are also inconsistently listed as coauthors.

Kyle G. Anderson

The examples you provided are all automatically produced, i.e. no one from Logos reviews them and we're dependent on publisher supplied metadata.

However, I've done a little poking around and there are some tweaks that we can do on our end to disambiguate. This is something we're going to look into at our end.

DMB

Good. Forwards are the most 'trick-some'.

DMM

You do see the same thing many other places. I downloaded all my audiobooks from another site, and organizing them was somewhat frustrating. Many books came with author tags of "John Smith (forward- John Doe)" (the whole thing listed as a single author) and required manually editing the tags. So it's not just Logos.

Yasmin Stephen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1392217#Comment_1392217

Yeah, I get this from other sites as well, not just Logos. The metadata is simply messy.

Pete De Bonte

@Kyle G. Anderson wrote: "…This is something we're going to look into at our end."

👍 Thank you, Kyle! : )

scooter

Jane Smith Juan Delgado [fwd] Deb Alton

Her are two authors + 1 forward writer. All are clickable blue reads. We see Deb writes the forward.

I want to know if Thomas Schreiner writes a forward, as an example. Then I for sure check out the book.

As well, please denote people as editors with [ed].