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BWinmill · 03-10-2015, 05:27 AM

Serials are barely even on my radar. In my humble opinion, they only make sense if a book is being published as part of a periodical. As standalone publications, the question becomes why? Is it a work in progress that the author may never finish? Is the author trying to get the reader to pay more for the book as installments than the reader would be willing to pay for the entire book? (Or earn additional revenues from something like Kindle Unlimited?) As a periodical, the benefit is that the reader is getting longer stories in a publication that they are already subscribing to. What is the benefit to the reader if a serial is published on its own?

Don't get me wrong. I would like to see more short fiction. It's just that I would like to see standalone stories rather than serials.

03-10-2015, 05:27 AM	#10
BWinmill Nameless Being	Serials are barely even on my radar. In my humble opinion, they only make sense if a book is being published as part of a periodical. As standalone publications, the question becomes why? Is it a work in progress that the author may never finish? Is the author trying to get the reader to pay more for the book as installments than the reader would be willing to pay for the entire book? (Or earn additional revenues from something like Kindle Unlimited?) As a periodical, the benefit is that the reader is getting longer stories in a publication that they are already subscribing to. What is the benefit to the reader if a serial is published on its own? Don't get me wrong. I would like to see more short fiction. It's just that I would like to see standalone stories rather than serials.