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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Even though I quibbled with the author's methods, I can see that piracy can be one of the factors impacting future books in a series. On the other hand, author Jeremy Robinson also mentioned that he will stop writing series, and piracy wasn't the problem.

I'm not the target market for this kind of book, but offhand I can think of two reasons for tanking series sales.

The first is killing the goose that laid the golden egg. Authors liked series because the books were pre-sold, but readers got tired of serious that just kept spinning their wheels and got nowhere, or worse, never concluded. They got wary; they won't invest in a series without some assurance that the series will both maintain the pace and conclude.

And the flip side of pre-sold is that any series will lose readers by attrition for various reasons, but books subsequent to the first won't add readers. It's built-in obsolescence.