Okay. I don't know about you, but I work hard for my money (flashback moment here). So I try to buy my books carefully. If it's a new author (either really new or just new to me), I like to get the sample first. If I am in my favorite B&N store, I'll sit down in the cafe with a stack of books to sort through. But I've seemingly run into a problem with the sample eBooks. Some samples included a full chapter (a new book I was checking out yesterday had almost 2 full chapters! Thank you, Kensington) but the ones I want to take issue with are the samples (and maybe I'm making the assumption that the publishers provide the sample download files) are the samples that have only the first paragraph or half-page of the first chapter. Your sample must be pretty powerful is you think I'll be hooked so quickly. I even had one sample that had less than the first full sentence of the first chapter!
I wonder if there is a formula that says 'only release the first x number of pages as the sample'. If so, I suggest that you adjust your formula to the following, all samples are only x number of pages after eliminating the dedications, acknowledgments and chapter listing. This will ensure that we, the readers will have an actual taste of what your author has written.
Just a thought....
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