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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
According to some authors and publishers I've talked to, the real problem is that the author has just written a very long book, and the economics of dead tree books is such that it's too long to economically print in a single book, and the publisher makes the author split it into two books.
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This is, I think, what happened to the first part of Michael Scottīs Nicholas Flamel series,
The Alchemyst. Most series have an ongoing storyline and each separate book in the series has an individual/sub storyline which ends at the end of each book.
The Alchemyst just ends. There is no sub storyline resolved and it just feels like it was part of a longer book that was cut in multiple parts. There wasn't even a real cliffhanger to entice you into getting the next part.
Although the story in itself was okay I was so annoyed with this non-ending that I refuse to go on with the series (I usually give a series 2-3 books to prove itself if I find the first part okay).