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I do think there should be something to sample prior to buying a book, but I think a chapter or two should suffice. That said, I don't think half or three quarters of a book needs to be made available...
For all of the books I've sampled from Amazon, I have not purchased even one where the sample only contained the table of contents, or some reviewers comments. Put a chapter or two up and I'll consider the book, otherwise... there's a lot more to read out there. Sometimes this one bites me in the ass as one of my previously favorite authors last 2 books have had samples full of comments about their books...none of the book, just some one elses opinion about the book... if I want to read that, I'd just look up that particular critic and find it myself. And no, I didn't buy the books.
In the end, it should be up to the author to decide how and what they want out there. They just need to understand that what they put out there will have a major impact on what comes back to them.
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