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This is not a book: It's a bait and switch
To the authors: So tired of the bait and switch. This is not a book. This is the first portion of a book. No aspect of the story is completed. There is no closure of any sort to any aspect of the plot. I realize that the success of Wool has caused many authors to decided that chopping their book up into umpteen parts, giving the first part away free and then charging book-prices for the successive parts makes good business sense, and they are probably right. However, I will not subsidize this blatant bait and switch. If you want to take this approach and make clear what you are really doing in your description of book one, I'm all for it; it means you believe in your writing enough that you believe people will be willing to pony up for the rest once they get a decent taste. In this case the book is good enough that I might have ponied up had you been up front with me, not great, but good enough to read if the total for the whole thing was in the typical e-book price range (i.e. if it was around 6.99 or less for all 5 parts). However this unhappy customer will not be back, I'd rather not know what happens than support your deceptive practices.
May 2016 · Books · verified purchase
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