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Originally Posted by hobnail
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.
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I think the easiest and likeliest explanation is that the second book is significantly better than the first, serving as a much stronger hook to the series. If -- as you've admitted you do -- readers are too prone to abandon a first book in a series and move on, or even finish it but give up, that's the end of that. A lot of people jump on anything free and I assume many give it a try even if it isn't the first in series.
I've posted about this elsewhere here, but the popular series I haven't pursued because IMO the first book was lousy are legion. I assume the series got better, but one and done is my MO.
I think freebies are fully priced at that.