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Originally Posted by Demingy
I just finished reading a book that didn't even bother with "To be continued...." it just ended abruptly. I had to double check and make sure I wasn't missing some content.
I can tell you, with approximately 10% of the book remaining, the abrupt stop was very unexpected. Of course the 10% wasn't an excerpt from the next book (which would have been useful to see if the book really was meant to end like that since apparently the next book picks up exactly where this leaves off). Instead it included author bio, a couple pages of a listing of the author's other books, the table of contents, a page advertising the author's website, a page encouraging readers to follow the author on Goodreads, and inexplicably four or five blank pages followed by a page with just a link to the Amazon page for the book itself.
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Can't you tell when a story is drawing to a close without consulting the page counter? If not, it's the fault of the writing, not of the book layout.
Of course, if you spend your life reading self-published eBooks, you have only yourself to blame!