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Feb 07 2008 12:00am EDT

What Might Kindle's Business Model Mean to the Way Books Are Written?

VC Josh Kopelman likes his Kindle e-book reader, and one of his reasons why really made me -- as an author -- stop and think. Josh writes:

My bookshelves at home are filled with books that I never finish. There's nothing more frustrating than buying a book, getting 20 pages into it, and then deciding that you don't like it. Amazon's Kindle allows you to download the first few chapters of a book for free - so you can make a purchase decision after you've started to read the book. Very cool. I've avoided purchasing more than six books because I didn't like how they began.

So, will authors now have to pack all the best stuff into the first couple chapters, the way rock bands used to put the best songs in the first two album tracks?

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