Summary: A 13 episode series of connected short stories set in John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War universe.
I have long been in favor of authors and publishers experimenting to find new methods of writing and distributing books. Now that I have experienced a real episodic serial I am not sure that I am a fan.
First of all it feels like it is more expensive. I don’t think it actually is, the first episode was free, the 2nd to 5th episodes I bought at the standard Audible member discount price of $0.69. Then episodes 6 to 13 I bought during the Spring Cleaning sale for $0.51 a piece. There was a note on my purchase that said I will be charged individually for the episodes that have not yet been released. So Audible is going to charge me $0.51 per week for the next four weeks. Incurring individual processing fees instead of bundling the costs together (since I bought them all at once.)