Yeah, I'm not sure how much in control you have over the sample percentage. I've made some ebooks for other people (clients of mine), and it's a percentage of the books total size.
In my case, these were computer-related books, or graphic novels, so the sample version worked well, since the overall size of the book was fairly large, so you got a decent-sized sample to look at.
Personally, I download samples all the time, and yeah, I downloaded the "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" book. While like you said it didn't have much of the actual content of the main story itself, it wasn't a total waste.
I could tell from the formatting that this might be a poor kindle-converted ebook, and reading the Amazon reviews afterward confirmed that.
I love reading samples, but it would be nice to have more control over it.
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