I love this tweet because it expresses my experience exactly:
“Started Pillars of the Earth, as a sample on Kindle. At 11:30p end of sample so without taking head off pillow downloaded rest of book WOW!” From Twitter.
What’s magical about a Kindle “sample” is that it gives you quite a bit to read, so that by the time the sample runs out, you are actually reading the book! The sample takes you past the point of no return. This is another example of the way in which the business system that Amazon has created meshes pretty neatly with the needs of the reader.
Just downloaded the sample of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns: along with A Whole New Mind and Made to Stick, it is available to download to the Kindle.