You have a lawyer for you fetishes?
I consider it scummy and refuse to read stories after it Happens those authors will never see a penny of my money
What if they are contractually bound. Should they take down the whole story?
They should only sell the sequels and break they're story up into books and ensure that any prior works are left alone
That sounds reasonable. I am not sure if I would consider doing it the other way as scummy, but I see your point.
I don't know if it's an agenda but I hate when the author gives an opinion about how society works like it's the absolute truth through their characters.
Nah. Sometimes there are some tags that don't matter too much but can give readers insight to what the story may contain.
The reason to go to Amazon is to sell to a wider audience, and selling only sequels is a terrible business decision if you're doing that. No one buying books on Amazon is going to go over to Scribblehub or wherever to read the first book first, or just read the sequel.
Even if you don't mean to push an agenda... if you're emulating a world, you're either going to base it on your views, or your understandings of someone else's. You can't have a story without some kind of opinion on how the world works baked into it to some extent, because you are imagining a world, and it invariably has to follow rules of some kind.
It's true. You should try to avoid preaching to the reader as much as possible, but your opinions will paint your writing. That is how we get insight into a writers thoughts.
1 In regards to it being a "terrible business decision" you've never fished before have you? You need to invest in bait to catch the fish.
I agree more with @Succubiome here. People going to Amazon finding new books won't look for the sequels first, and they will move onto something else if they can't find the book on the platform.
In gamer terms, if I find a paid game on Playstation and the prequel is free on PC, me and most people wouldn't go out of the way to play it on PC
There is also the thought process of free being of lower quality (even if that isn't true). People would be more likely to think the author isn't professional.
Because people are inherently lazy. Too many button pushing to put in a title into any search engine. It's unfortunate but, it is what it is.
Huh?
