[mikecane]

It will breed sequelitis, a specialty of movies. And more grave-robbing of dead authors (see fourth Millennium series book recently announced while Stieg Larsson spins in his grave).

[svenkatesh]

Sequelitis is a problem in any creative industry.

TV shows do it, and video games do it too (biggest offenders are Call of Duty and Pokémon)

[mikecane]

"industry" is the key word.