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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
I hope you're right, but it must be working for some authors/publishers or they wouldn't keep doing it?
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I would guess it really depends on the author AND the type of reader.
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If the right audience can be found and the books are marketed correctly, it might work. I don't know.
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KU is relatively new. I am not sure that I want to believe that some (many?) authors get out of their way to cheat the system already. Amazon specifically advertises short reads / stories as being in KU. So if you got some unexpected downtime, and want to fill it with a complete story, you are covered.
The examples you mentioned are new things, and they may have a reason to exist if an audience can be found. For a traditional novel style book there is no need for it to be broken into pieces. Who knows, some readers may put up with the small pieces and are happy that the book is in KU at all. Multiple complete short stories in the same world can work. Imagine what happens when there is more than one author writing in the same series. And maybe KU needs to change to pay out differently based on new categories like novel and novella - with different amounts of borrows to equal the same price (e.g. 1 novel equals 3 novellas in payout).