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(Note that this "series problem" I'm describing is probably only relevant with litrpg and fantasy; see my post further below.)

I check ereaderiq.com almost every day for free books and have many books from that. I'm a person who can usually tell if a book is a dud after a few chapters so then I stop reading it and mark it as finished and move to the next one in the queue.

One of the things that has always puzzled me is when authors make the 2nd or later book in a series free and the 1st one hasn't been made free. If I were a writer I'd make the 1st book free. When authors make the 1st book free and I like that book then I'll buy the 2nd book, and if it still holds up, the 3rd book. (Invariably the genre I mostly read, litrpg, has well over 10 books in a series, with no end in sight, and it's rare that I've finished a series when it does have a final book.)

Why do you think authors do that? Do they think it'll make you buy the first book? I never read a series out of order so I'm certainly not going to start with the 2nd book.