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Originally Posted by NatCh
I really don't want to pay $30 for a 30 chapter novel. Even with every 4th free that's still $23 bucks. 
If my books only had 5 or 6 chapters, then I might feel differently.  |
Actually, while I am not sure the iPod analogy works in most cases here, to get it right, many of the albums have more than 10 tracks (15 or 16 on several of my recent purchases), and the album is still $10 (most of them, there are exceptions). To apply the analogy to books, there would be a standard price for whole books (which I will not speculate on), which would be less than buck-a-chapter.
Now, for a collection of short stories, that would be a working model. I would gladly pay a buck for The Pedestrian, or a chapter of The Illustrated Man, or most any Bradbury short. On the other hand, that's not be a typical example, as I have paid premiums for for some of his books that I already owned to get autographed hardbacks.
Jack