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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
So while it isn't for me, there are more authors and publishers trying it--probably for various reasons.
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On Baen's Bar there are a number of authors who "snippet". While the work is still being written, or sometimes just been submitted to editing, small parts are posted on the various fora of the Bar, and eagerly awaited. Eric Flint's stuff tended to get almost half the book posted by the time he'd finish snippets, which would happen about the time the eArc would post. Which also brought about the whole idea of a "snerker" who had read the snippets goading on those who hadn't.
I realize this is different than having the story broken up so that you had to purchase each part separately.
Also, when webscriptions first started, the whole idea was to have parts of the book available early enough to allow those who liked it to pre-order the paper version. In the days before the Kindle, this transformed Baen from a primary paperback publisher into one where the majority of their works came out in hardback first (because the webscriptions were successful in soliciting hardback pre-orders.) Me, I just waited to download until the whole thing was available.