The first few chapters

Has anyone bought a book online recently? You search and search and find one that seems decent and you pay, download and start reading only to quickly find out it's just the first few chapters? Ya, me too. Crazy annoying, mostly because most of the time there is no indication that you aren't buying the whole book. It's just a hook. Here's a great book, only a dollar buy me buy me, oh ya wait if you actually want to see what happens you have buy 5 more installments at 2 dollars each. Grrrrr. Needless to say I did not do that. I put the whole damn book out there for sale, priced it fairly and let people read to the very end. Oh ya and it's a complete book. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It continues in book two but that is a complete book as well not just the second half of book one. God, what is happening to writers and publishing that people feel the need to parcel out their work a few pages at a time? 

I have never bought the second installment of any of these books. Even if I liked them I can't be bothered to try and find the next cluster of chapters, so, oh well, I guess I'll never know who Hannah chose or how Troy got himself out of trouble. If you had charged 5$ for your whole book I would have paid it, but I'm not paying 1$ five times for five different chunks. Sorry.