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I'm thinking, that while this is my first foray into fiction, I might release each chapter on blogspot or something like that free. I don't know how that would work out, or if it's even a good idea if I want to sell the book for .99 or whatever after it's done and edited etc. And also since I'm a new writer, how people would take to the errors I make while I'm learning about this crazy thing. Would it hurt, or would it help, that sort of thing.
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I don't know. Technically if they download a chapter at a time from blogspot, they can get the whole thing for free, so many people may not want to pay .99. A lot of writers break a big book down into parts and release them cheap and do a further discount on the complete novel e.g. 1 part for .99 of a 3 part story, the complete 3 part novel for $2.49.
I personally released my short story for free, partly to get myself known and partly because I don't think it's good enough to charge for. What's becoming increasing clear is the harshest critic is myself, so it may be the case with other writers. Even published novels by established writers can have mistakes in them, the English language is a strange, as long as it's a good story and grammatically accurate, spell checked and generally coherent - you should be fine.
You could release a chapter for free and charge for the whole book. It depends how long the book is though. Hope that helps.