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Originally Posted by GeoffC
So you want to read a book, before you decide to buy it?
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There's a lot of space between one chapter and the whole book.
For a book, the ending is absolutely necessary. Therefore, you could offer 2/3 (arbitrary ratio) of the ebook for free and charge the ebook price for the last third. Anyone who likes the book and therefore wants to finish reading it will buy the last third.
The customer has all the reading info he wants and the publisher/author gets paid. Negative effects would be:
- Books that suck will be seen as thus before you buy them (good for the customer, though)
- Digitizing pbooks will be reduced to 1/3 the work, though again, this is irrelevant (will be done anyhow; ebooks are insecure anyhow; focus on selling).
BAEN offers ~7 chapters for free for the webscription books (non-free ebooks).