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Originally Posted by tompe
I think this is important that people would like to pay for what they use and having a ebook without reading it I do not consider to be use. I still think that some system were you pay after you have read a book and you pay towards the next book could work.
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Why go to these lengths rather than posting copious excerpts, and asking for payment for the whole book if you wish to read it after all?
Baen posts 25% free from pretty much anything they do, and for popular novels they go to 75-80% if you are willing to follow snippets.
I remember when I was following Eric Flint
Ring of Fire 2 - it had a bunch of short stories and the piece of resistance was Mr. Flint's novella at the end. In the free part quite a few of the ss were posted, while Mr. Flint snippeted all but the last several pages of his novella so when I got the full copy, I was kind of "is this all that's new?"
I still did not regret paying 6$ and I would have been willing to pay 15$ for an e-arc for that matter - it was not offered for some reason, forgot why -