Comments on: No Reader Left Behind, or If You Promise Them A Trilogy… https://booksquare.com/no-reader-left-behind-or-if-you-promise-them-a-trilogy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=no-reader-left-behind-or-if-you-promise-them-a-trilogy Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Speakeasy » Blog Archive » A Trilogy of One https://booksquare.com/no-reader-left-behind-or-if-you-promise-them-a-trilogy/#comment-168464 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:37:54 +0000 http://booksquare.com/no-reader-left-behind-or-if-you-promise-them-a-trilogy/#comment-168464 […] decides, after publishing one book in a trilogy, not to publish any more? Kassia Krozser over at BookSquare has written an iarticle about just such a dilemma. Independent publishing really gives all […]

]]> By: Book Calendar https://booksquare.com/no-reader-left-behind-or-if-you-promise-them-a-trilogy/#comment-168463 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:40:30 +0000 http://booksquare.com/no-reader-left-behind-or-if-you-promise-them-a-trilogy/#comment-168463 Then you can give the first book away for free as an ebook, and sell the others online once they get hooked. (This is the Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross story.) They did quite well doing this.

]]> By: Lynne Connolly https://booksquare.com/no-reader-left-behind-or-if-you-promise-them-a-trilogy/#comment-168462 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:42:09 +0000 http://booksquare.com/no-reader-left-behind-or-if-you-promise-them-a-trilogy/#comment-168462 It may be that in these times of tightened wallets, authors will have to reach their “numbers” before the next book is considered, series or not. Of course it’s always been that way, but the publisher now has less wiggle room before they have to drop a series. I blogged (elsewhere) about that recently, having heard of two new casualties to the phenomenon.

]]> By: bowerbird https://booksquare.com/no-reader-left-behind-or-if-you-promise-them-a-trilogy/#comment-168461 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:42:05 +0000 http://booksquare.com/no-reader-left-behind-or-if-you-promise-them-a-trilogy/#comment-168461 plus the readers who get hooked
on the third book might go back
and buy the first two…

-bowerbird

]]> By: Angela James https://booksquare.com/no-reader-left-behind-or-if-you-promise-them-a-trilogy/#comment-168460 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:51:34 +0000 http://booksquare.com/no-reader-left-behind-or-if-you-promise-them-a-trilogy/#comment-168460 I feel similarly about Brenda Joyce’s Francesca Cahill series, which it appears we will never see a conclusion to.

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