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Responding primarily as a reader, I agree with a lot of what's been said. Poor chapter break placement can really break up the flow of an otherwise good book. I don't mind short chapters (although they used to bug me), I don't mind long chapters. What I do mind is when a chapter break occurs for no apparent reason. I agree with thinking of it like a play, and you make you breaks based on scenes, or even where a commercial break would be in a TV show (maybe the same scene, but there's been a cliffhanger or a new piece of information presented).
Another thing that can be very frustrating about chapter breaks is when they always occur after the same type of chapter ending. I read a book once that was pretty entertaining, but the chapter breaks always came after a (manufactured) mini cliffhanger. That gets old really fast, especially when there are some 25 chapters. Most of those cliffhangers really made no sense.
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