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Originally Posted by DarkScribe
I don't and never have bought a trilogy. If it takes three books to tell one story - I am not interested. I will buy books in a series, that is quite a different thing.
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Three-volume publishing was the norm in the 19th century. The works of almost all the authors of the "classics" - Austen, Hardy, Dickens, Trollope, etc - were published in three volumes.
One of the reasons for this was the spread of libraries. Publishing a book in three volumes meant that three different readers could be reading it at the same time.