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The Transfer (Divergent, #0.1)
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Sep 03, 2013 (before reading)
A fat cow never goes unmilked… and so here it comes the army of overpriced short stories.
Kindle Price: $2.06
Print Length: 30 pages
Seriously.
Oct 26, 2013 (after reading)
Just for clarity's sake: on my ADE reader, the ebook was exactly 34 pages long, and the story began on page 4 (Four! Hehe) and ended on page 29, for a net total of 25 pages.
I'm not one of those people who think that everything should be free or at least very cheap. And I don't want to squabble over a matter of a handful of cents. Hey, you did a job, you have to get paid.
But this story is more like a marketing aid for the actual books of the series (and the upcoming movie!), and for this price it should be doubly as long as it is.
That being said… yes, I liked it.
A fat cow never goes unmilked… and so here it comes the army of overpriced short stories.
Kindle Price: $2.06
Print Length: 30 pages
Seriously.
Oct 26, 2013 (after reading)
Just for clarity's sake: on my ADE reader, the ebook was exactly 34 pages long, and the story began on page 4 (Four! Hehe) and ended on page 29, for a net total of 25 pages.
I'm not one of those people who think that everything should be free or at least very cheap. And I don't want to squabble over a matter of a handful of cents. Hey, you did a job, you have to get paid.
But this story is more like a marketing aid for the actual books of the series (and the upcoming movie!), and for this price it should be doubly as long as it is.
That being said… yes, I liked it.
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Sep 03, 2013 06:42PM
Then don't buy it. Many people don't mind $2 for a story.
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$2 for a short story isn't so bad. Some of us paid double that because we're Canadian. That's totally overpriced. Hell, $4 is nearly half of most YA paperbacks.. Seriously, how do they even justify that?I'm totally with Sabrina on this one.
Jakie, I don't mind 2$ for a short story. But minus the cover(s), the colophon, and the advertising, this won't even be those 30 pages. That's not a short story, it's an almost-nothing story.I'll buy it and I'm sure I'll enjoy the little there's of it, but I'm not blind and I see what's being done here.
Jenn, I sympathize.I live in Europe, and sometimes I luck out with a favorable currency exchange rate, sometimes I'm left high and dry because some titles are not available for my country.
I don't know about you, but my copy is actually 55 pages long with very small font. It's advertised as only 30 pages but definitely isn't!
Julia, I haven't bought it yet, I was relying the details as they were given on Amazon.Even if pagination on ebooks is quite a fickle thing, I'm glad to hear this is not as short as I was fearing :)
Price is a total rip off and it is disappointing but I enjoyed the story.
You can find it in mysterious places of the internet for free
That is waaay to expensive. U have any idea what I could do with two bucks? At a book sale, that's like 2-4 books.
I felt it was well worth my $2. If you want to read it for free, you could always use Kindle or Nook lending. Any of my Nook friends are welcome to borrow it from me.
All I did was wait for the library to buy it, then borrow it.
Erin wrote: "I felt it was well worth my $2. If you want to read it for free, you could always use Kindle or Nook lending. Any of my Nook friends are welcome to borrow it from me."I don't have friends that read english books, and I don't even know anyone with a Kindle or a Nook. I'm afraid that reading for me will always be a solitary endeavor :)
Belle wrote: "All I did was wait for the library to buy it, then borrow it."Italian libraries don't buy english books. And if they do, they buy the most famous ones, the ones that get in the first 10 of the best-selling lists.
It's available to read for free online. All of them are.
It's funny how this book was not a book when it was given free from authors website. When people added these and similar freebies they were removed here on GR, but now that Amazon can rip money from people selling them, these are "books".
