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Now Amazon for a bit tried buy a book as it is being written. I tried it once. Note you got the entire book for one price but you only got so many chapters a week.
Yes, the book was good but the wait was horrible.
The big problem with serials is some authors try to use the Dickens model.
That wasn't a serial as we think of today but a way for the masses to read when books were a very high end luxury item.
Breaking up a book or publishing as the author is writing in a magazine is one thing. Putting out just chapters to fleece your potential readers is another.
Now if they are actually a completely story with an underlying continuing arc, I am not fond of those but at least I get a story out of the deal and can decide whether to continue or not.
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