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K-Thom · 05-24-2009, 05:00 AM

In short: I tried the eBook-for-free and Paypal-donation-button stunt two or three years ago.

More than 200.000 downloads, but not one donation. Maybe this may work for others, definitely didn't for me.

But - to put the "200.000" into perspective -, this was a series of 25 eBooks with six different formats, so we're talking about an average of about 1.000 downloads per title. Still not a very encouraging prospect.

05-24-2009, 05:00 AM	#4
K-Thom The one and only Posts: 3,302 Karma: 535819 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: yup!	In short: I tried the eBook-for-free and Paypal-donation-button stunt two or three years ago. More than 200.000 downloads, but not one donation. Maybe this may work for others, definitely didn't for me. But - to put the "200.000" into perspective -, this was a series of 25 eBooks with six different formats, so we're talking about an average of about 1.000 downloads per title. Still not a very encouraging prospect. Last edited by K-Thom; 05-24-2009 at 05:03 AM.