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Originally Posted by issybird
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.
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Or the author spends 1/3 of the book repeating from the previous books.
Not bad if the books come out years apart, horrible if the books are coming out every three months.