Talk:The Elementalists, Book 2/@comment-38734277-20190803004145/@comment-36836718-20190805190728

The more ambitious the book, the more expensive it gets. I assume that a book series has a certain budget and has to bring in the cost for making it + the cost for making the sequel. Let's say, for example, that creating one book this complex costs 10k (10 000 dollars), then the revenue should be 10k to meet the cost + what it takes to create the sequel (5-10k, depending on reusing art designs, including characters). If they only got 10k (or even less) from the book, then they may have met the cost for creating it, but no profit which would be needed to create the sequel, and therefore would have to take the risk to make a book that may be even less successful and may not even bring in the money it costs.

Judging from comments over the last few months, it was obvious to me that book 2 wasn't nearly as popular as book 1 and therefore probably not successful enough to meet the costs. Every few days or weeks, someone asked why hardly anyone talked about this book. During book 1, the social networks were full of comments about premium scenes etc. During book 2, all I got to see were comments like "why does xy cost so much, I can't/don't want to spend so much" and "I would have liked to take a scene in the chapter, but I wanted to spend time with x and not with y, so I didn't". Part of me was expecting this book to be the final book, but I was still surprised when it was announced, because the other part was hoping that some silent majority spent lots of diamonds without talking about it...