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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
Like you, I don't feel "obligated" to buy a sequel to something I have obtained free. I simply meant if one enjoyed something -- I discovered Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley through a Kobo library download -- I'm more likely to include the author the next I am buying at Amazon or Kobo.
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Well, that's how it's supposed to work, isn't it? If you find out you like an author, regardless of how you got to read their writing, you're more inclined to seek them out again however and wherever you can.
Last FW 50% off coupon sale (before the current one in the D, F & R forum), I picked up the first books in various series by Nick Pollotta and Lawrence Watt-Evans to try out. Read and enjoyed them; today went back for the lot in both. Same with the library. I try a new-to-me book that looks interesting; if it turns out to be good (or even just unintentionally entertaining*), I go look at the rest of what that author has on shelf next time I'm there.
While this doesn't necessarily translate to
sales (at least not from you and me), it does make for an increase in goodwill and word-of-mouth and even potential paying readership. I'm always happy to recommend decent-quality authors I've enjoyed when people ask for specific story elements, and even happier when I can point people at free full-length "samples" of their writing.
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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
The other "meme" pressing up against my pant leg, however, is that ... hey! there's only so much time in the day and one's day's are numbered. Do I really need to "clutter" up my ereader with stuff I am unlikely to read?
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Absolutely not. Things you're completely opposed to: don't even bother with if you know it's not for you and you don't even want to peek out of morbid curiosity.
It's the stuff you might enjoy but have doubts about, or haven't tried that you might be receptive to, that is worth at least a quick addition and a skim through the first couple of pages which will let you determine whether it just plain leaves you flat and you can merrily delete away, or if it's got a spark of potential you might want to revisit when you're bored and want a change of pace.
* Why yes, I do have
Ed Wood on DVD.