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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
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.
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Yeah, I was thinking along similar lines of another reason for the death spiral: quality control. I'd bet that the first book of a series is labored over to a much greater extent than subsequent ones, as the author starts to crank them out.