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Originally Posted by soilwork
Maybe it is slightly  , but...
I am not very familiar with King's experiment but, judging from what I read from this post, one factor that might have contributed to the failure of King's experiment is that the payment is made separately every time a new chapter comes out. |
I'd say this is on-topic... we're talking about e-book sales models, after all. I tend to agree, a single payment would have been better: If readers had paid up-front for the entire novel, and automatically received each chapter periodically, much like a subscription, the project would have been better-received.
This would also have given King the opportunity to evaluate how many payments he had up-front, and if he decided it wouldn't pay for the project, he could cancel the project and refund the payments before anything was transacted.