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Originally Posted by lene1949
I don't buy books which offer only 5-10% as a sample, unless that sample is extremely good... I feel the author is not confident his/her book is good enough further into the story.
I saw a book the other day, which had no sample at all...
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For books of over 100k words, 5% is enough of a sample to know if (1) you like the writing style and (2) you find the story interesting. It's the ones at 20-40k words that can have problems, because most of the sample can be taken up by the intro pages.