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Originally Posted by kyrilson
I guess I’ll be a nonconformist here and say I’m a fan of this format. I like having something to look forward to reading when a new episode comes out. I don’t mind paying a little extra for it. I really enjoyed it when Stephen King did it with The Green Mile paperbacks waaay back in the day. I’m 49, btw, so I’m not the typical young person like everyone seems to think is the target audience. I think it will do pretty well. Webtoon, Serial Box and others are pretty successful.
I do try to be very careful with who I read in stuff like this and focus on authors I’m familiar with and genres I know I like. For instance I’ve only read “Island of the Dead” by Brian Keene in Kindle Vella because he is one of my favorite authors. And even if I’m paying a little extra I know he’s getting paid that extra for it too, which is a bonus in my mind.
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I don't have a problem with the concept. I mean, if it was good enough for Dickens and Doyle, what the hell. (And Black Mask, etc.)
I'm just...really unhappy about the quality of what I'm seeing ATM. Will it change? Sure, most likely but there seems to be an entire swath of would-be writers that DO think it's WIP stuff. They are even evangelizing for "private" comments from readers, like beta readers. It's boggling to me. It's as though they have no distinction between something like Wattpad and serialization.
Generally speaking, for me personally, serials aren't my cuppa. I won't even buy books from any author (any longer) that cliffhangs me. If they do it, they're permanently removed from my list. It's greedy, grasping behavior and I won't reward them for it.
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