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Safety Biscuits
Oct 21, 2010

I think it's less to do with the technology and more to do with peoples' preparedness to buy serials - Stephen King wrote The Plant years ago, but people wouldn't buy. There's also been a ton more experimentation with authors trying to make money from the internet, things like Greg Stolze's ransom model (author sets a donation target, donations are open for a month or so, once it hits the target the book's free to download forever) and KS. Perhaps also the prominence of long storylines in TV shows lately - people are used to waiting for the next episode.

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