I am thinking about the buying habits of readers, and trying to subdivide them into several categories, in relation to a single author's works
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Yes, I usually pick a new author because they're writing in a genre that I like and it was recommended to me. (Normally it has to be both, although sometimes I will stray out of genre based on a strong personal recommendation).
I will stick with a series if I really like it -- I'll read the sequel to anything I rate a 9. I will usually try other books by the author if I really liked one that they wrote. But when I liked it but didn't feel strongly about it -- a 7 or an 8 -- then it gets more random whether I'll keep going. And that determines my likelihood of trying other books by the same author, too. If I'd give a 9 to one series but the first book in another is only a 7, it's much less likely I'll try a third. There is SO MUCH stuff out there. @_@
Y'know, that's a good related topic, 'what motivates you to pick up a book from an author you have not previously read other books by?' For me, I look for a few definite things
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I'll read the rest of a series if I liked the book a 4. (And subsequent books don't get worse.) I might even try other books by the same author, especially if they are later works. In addition to being an Author Fan I tend to be a "Completionist Fan". Even if the story kinda sucks, I probably still wanna know how it ends.
There are exceptions. That horrible book about that horrible man by that Donaldson wretch, for example.
*laughs* When I was reading that horrible book about that horrible man by that Donaldson, I was in high school and still a completionist. I'd finish every book and every series I started. It was actually Piers Anthony that broke me of it: I read his Tarot trilogy, which even 16 YEAR-OLD ME, who had the bad taste to like so much other Anthony, couldn't stand. I can't imagine how bad it must have been. D: I did finish it, but after that I no longer insisted on finish a book or a series just because I'd started it.
I use a 1-10 scale, and I basically never rate books a 4 or less because if I didn't like it more than that, I probably didn't finish it. Most things that are 5-6, I don't finish either.
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I will stick with a series if I really like it -- I'll read the sequel to anything I rate a 9. I will usually try other books by the author if I really liked one that they wrote. But when I liked it but didn't feel strongly about it -- a 7 or an 8 -- then it gets more random whether I'll keep going. And that determines my likelihood of trying other books by the same author, too. If I'd give a 9 to one series but the first book in another is only a 7, it's much less likely I'll try a third. There is SO MUCH stuff out there. @_@
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I'll read the rest of a series if I liked the book a 4. (And subsequent books don't get worse.) I might even try other books by the same author, especially if they are later works. In addition to being an Author Fan I tend to be a "Completionist Fan". Even if the story kinda sucks, I probably still wanna know how it ends.
There are exceptions. That horrible book about that horrible man by that Donaldson wretch, for example.
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I use a 1-10 scale, and I basically never rate books a 4 or less because if I didn't like it more than that, I probably didn't finish it. Most things that are 5-6, I don't finish either.
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