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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef
When Kobo says you're 70% through your book and the book suddenly ends, only for you to realize that the remaining 30% is a publisher's "preview" of the next book in the series (which you already own).
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I agree that is irritating. I don't mind a list of books you might interested in at the end of an ebook (including a brief blurb about the book), but to include part of another book to me is just wrong. If they are going to include it in an ebook it should be limited to one page/screen.
Something related: An ebook where you find out that part of it is actually part of another ebook that you've already purchased. I'm not talking about a book that is part of a compilation (like
Laugh Lines by Ben Bova which is a compilation of his humorous books). I stumbled upon that ebook because I was looking for an ebook version of the novel
Cyberbooks by Ben Bova (which is interesting in how it predicted the rise of ebooks in the 1990s and its a funny novel about how the Publishing Industry actually works), but I wasn't able to find it as a standalone ebook until I stumbled upon the compilation.
What I'm talking about is where you purchase an ebook that is a complete story. Later, you purchase another ebook by the same author and it turns out that it contains the entire ebook you had purchased and then it continues the story (the addition is long enough to be a separate book). I'd rather they just publish the later part of the ebook as a separate book.