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Originally Posted by HarryT
Hopefully this'll mean the end of the "serial novels" that authors have been using purely as a mechanism for making more money on KU. As a reader, I loath them.
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If they are doing it solely to game the system.
However, if the story itself is episodic there are good reasons to stick with the serial format, chief among them visibility. There is (marketing) value in having a longer list of titles in the catalog.
Serials have been around pretty much forever (I doubt Homer performed THE ODYSSEY in one loonnngggg session.
) and will be with us for a long time.
Proper serials are a narrative form unto themselves, just as TV series are distinct from movies. There's room aplenty in the ebook world.