10-20-2011, 11:10 AM | #16 |
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Agree fully with the OP. When scanning the new authors in the Kindle store I won't even bother with one that doesn't have a sample available. I sample half of my novels at Smashwords, and actually wish that Amazon would allow for longer samples; sometimes it takes me a bit longer to get hooked.
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10-21-2011, 12:50 PM | #17 | |
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10-21-2011, 01:22 PM | #18 |
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That sounds like dumb planning of the sample to me. That's a total of five pages, so they could have given half a chapter, rather than a bunch of title pages. Half a chapter is still short though. But I've noticed when I read samples, that though it sometimes takes me quite a while to get hooked, putting me entirely off a book to the point where I perma-delete the sample takes only a couple of pages.
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