FWIW, I am not a short story person and I'm not keen on serializations. So I'd be less likely to purchase a book that is, effectively, not finished yet -- which is what you get on a chapter by chapter basis. I mean, maybe you
have finished it, but, as others have said, we don't know that. . . so we have to ask ourselves "do we want to invest in something that might not ever be fully published?"
Also, as someone pointed out, at a buck a chapter that adds up to real money. . . .and we don't know how many chapters. If you look through the other authors' threads here you'll see that they're generally pricing their books well under $5 for the whole shebang. The reasoning is, if they're priced as high as big names, they won't get any play because folks are found to be unwilling to shell out $10 or more on an unknown author. (Heck, many are unwilling to shell out more than $10 on a well known author.) But for a couple of bucks we'll take a chance -- especially if the author is someone we've gotten to 'know' through their posts all over these boards. And subsequent books can be priced somewhat higher because now you have 'fans'.
The serial publishing might work very well on a site where you can price each chapter lower, but since Amazon's minimum price is 99 cents I just don't see it working well here. You'll find many of us are VERY conscious of how we spend our 'Kindle Kash'.
Also, please don't think this is "naysaying". We are generally HUGELY supportive of new authors here. . .the comments made are by way of giving you info so that you can become successful!
I'd also dispute that "Kindle readers like their reading in short bursts" comment -- in the most courteous and thoughtful manner, of course, and I realize it's from someone who is
not you.
It is true that most of us are the sort who will read any time we get 5 minutes to spare. But that doesn't mean we want to have a beginning, middle, and end all in that 5 minutes. Some here are short story readers but we are also a lot of 'gimme a BIG book' readers. Check out the Book corner forum and you'll see that there are several threads where people are asking for
loooong books. In fact, many love the Kindle because at allows them to now read long books (translation: big and heavy) just as comfortably as they can read shorter works. And at least once a week there's a comment somewhere on these board from someone who stayed up extra late to finish something. . . many of us
do want to read a whole book at a time!
So. If the book is finished. . .yes, I'd suggest getting it up and posted! Meanwhile, if you're getting sales with the serialization. . . .congratulations!
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