Review: reader put off by marketing technique
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2012
This isn't a review as such, but just a comment intended to be helpful to the author. I keep looking at this, because the story looks interesting, but the idea of selling the book in pieces to lure readers into paying more for it makes me wary of having any dealings with the author. It's too much like the standard "Get it for 4 low payments of only $29.95!" psychological trick that TV product scams use to distract customers from the actual cost of the product. What's worse is, the reader doesn't even know how many $3 payments he'll have to shell out to get the whole book. Will it be $9? $12? Will the author get halfway done with the story and get bored with it, leaving the readers stuck with a $10 book that's missing the final chapters?If the author decides to sell this novel in it entirety, with a fixed price, I'll likely give it a read, but I'm not going to be like the famous Charlie, riding forever on the MTA because it always costs one more nickel to get off.