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Old 08-08-2010, 09:52 AM   #76
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Originally Posted by lene1949 View Post
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...
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.
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