There’s an increasing number of novels on the website that at first glance look like any other novel, they’ll have all the chapters there but you won’t be able to read them. When you open a chapter what will be there instead is a link to their book on Amazon (or Google Play and so on).
I think it’s great that authors have successfully gotten their works on Amazon if that’s the route they want to take, but at that point if they have to they should take the story off of Scribble Hub entirely instead of leaving bait and switch chapters of something that can’t be read on a free novel site.
It’s particularly frustrating when they leave the first couple chapters up so you think it’s an actual readable story when it isn’t and just use Scribble Hub as free advertising.
Some authors after having hundreds of dead chapters that are just links will then have active chapters again from the recent part of the story that isn’t up on Amazon yet. Essentially the readers who have been following along from the start are a free sounding board, free editors and critics before that portion of the story is taken down and put on sale. But for everyone else late to the party it’s a flat out pay wall on a free reading site.
Some authors can lean a little heavy into the Patreon thing or similar. But as a reader I don’t mind that, because eventually I’ll be able to read the story. But the Amazon thing and the way some authors go about it is different. It’s a flat out paywall with no way around which they hide and try to make look like an actual story by leaving up empty dead chapters.
I think that at minimum dead chapters that only contain links should not be allowed on Scribble Hub.
I think it’s great that authors have successfully gotten their works on Amazon if that’s the route they want to take, but at that point if they have to they should take the story off of Scribble Hub entirely instead of leaving bait and switch chapters of something that can’t be read on a free novel site.
It’s particularly frustrating when they leave the first couple chapters up so you think it’s an actual readable story when it isn’t and just use Scribble Hub as free advertising.
Some authors after having hundreds of dead chapters that are just links will then have active chapters again from the recent part of the story that isn’t up on Amazon yet. Essentially the readers who have been following along from the start are a free sounding board, free editors and critics before that portion of the story is taken down and put on sale. But for everyone else late to the party it’s a flat out pay wall on a free reading site.
Some authors can lean a little heavy into the Patreon thing or similar. But as a reader I don’t mind that, because eventually I’ll be able to read the story. But the Amazon thing and the way some authors go about it is different. It’s a flat out paywall with no way around which they hide and try to make look like an actual story by leaving up empty dead chapters.
I think that at minimum dead chapters that only contain links should not be allowed on Scribble Hub.
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