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Re:As New Services Track Habits, the E-Books Are Reading You by mikecane on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @03:25PM (#6964124)
It will breed sequelitis, a specialty of movies. And more grave-robbing of dead authors (see fourth Millennium series book recently announced while Stieg Larsson spins in his grave).
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Re:As New Services Track Habits, the E-Books Are Reading You by svenkatesh on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @05:45PM (#6964566)
Sequelitis is a problem in any creative industry.

TV shows do it, and video games do it too (biggest offenders are Call of Duty and Pokémon)

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Re:As New Services Track Habits, the E-Books Are Reading You by mikecane on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @06:12PM (#6964651)
"industry" is the key word.
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