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Originally Posted by Catlady
How do you not get that reading a sample takes time?
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I've also found many samples unhelpful in making a purchasing decision, both from trad and indy publishers.
Too often the sample size is set to where, once you get past all the upfront material—cover, title page, copyright page, dedication, table of contents, etc—you get maybe a page or two of the actual story to judge on.
And the downside is, for both trad and indy, the samples where I do have a chance to read something more representative of the book have rarely led to a sale.
Of dozens of samples, I've purchased, I think 2, one trad and one indy. (Though the indy purchase was also heavily influenced by interacting with the author here on mobilereads.)
Mostly, samples have convinced me NOT to buy a book.
I buy much more the same way I used to buy DTBs—reviews, recommendations, word-of-mouth, and jsut way too much browsing.