Comments on: Free Readin’ | The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:13:54 +0000

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By: JDP

JDP — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:57:52 +0000

$2.99 for the prologue seems needlessly money-grubbing; reading that left a bad taste in my mouth in regard to this classic series. Hopefully, as Aidan says, this will be going to charity in this case.

By: Christy Pinheiro

Christy Pinheiro — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:47:36 +0000

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By: Adam Whitehead

Adam Whitehead — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:12:22 +0000

THE GATHERING STORM prologue is about 20,000 words, or about 7-8% of the entire book.

And yes, it’s bit of a cheek. The system for KoD made more sense. Paying for the CoT, WH and PoD prologues cheesed off a lot of fans and I’m surprised they’ve gone back to doing it.

With the recent news about Tor wanting more books and now this money-making maneuver, there is more than a whiff of Kevin J. Anderson starting to form about this. That said, the quality of the chapter was fairly decent.

By: CupofDice

CupofDice — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:22:18 +0000

If I remember correctly, if you had bought Knife of Dreams before it was released, you were able to download the prologue. Maybe Tor and Amazon will do something similar this time.

By: CupofDice

CupofDice — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:17:18 +0000

Reading right now. Thanks for bring this to my attention (first thing I saw in my google reader). The writing is a bit different from RJ (I don’t think I ever seen the word metaphor in the previous books-RJ had a quirky style that is hard for anyone else to just master), but I am enjoying it. I have no problem with the prologue costing. Milk it Tor, just make sure it tastes good.

By: Kendall

Kendall — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:06:18 +0000

Thanks for elaborating; that all helps explain it a lot! Though I wonder how well these things sell.

By: aidan

aidan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:47:07 +0000

I more or less agree, Kendall.

Jordan’s prologues are known to be long (100+ pages?) and the prologue of The Gathering Storm was written by Jordan himself (rather than Sanderson), which may be a reason.

On top of this, it looks like the prologues of the last three books have been released as ebooks, costing a couple of bucks, in the past, so this isn’t unprecedented.

Still, If I were reading the book, I’d just wait a couple of weeks, rather than putting out the cash.

By: Kendall

Kendall — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:36:09 +0000

I’m confused; chapter 1 is free, but the prologue will be $2.99?! Are WoT Prologues normally several chapters long and do they normally contain information vital to the entire book or something? (Hint: I’ve never read a WoT book. Yeah, I’m a heretic or whatever, big deal.

This sounds very weird; I can’t imagine paying for a chapter or a prologue, even for a long-awaited book that starts the end (!) of my favorite series of all time or whatever….