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Originally Posted by Trenien
The experiment of providing "American Gods" for free over the net appears to have been a success.
"The Indies [ie. independent booksellers -- Neil] are the only sales channel where we have confidence that incremental sales were driven by this promotion. In the Bookscan data reported for Independents we see a marked increase in weekly sales across all of Neil’s books, not just American Gods during the time of the contest and promotion. Following the promotion, sales returned to pre-promotion levels. "
The complete article is here (he doesn't begin with that topic, so browse a bit down) |
But this doesn't *prove* anything! For it to be considered "proof", the results have to match up to the preconceptions of the publishing industry - and the publishing industry believes this is a "bad idea" which will drastically drop sales of books and cause general (and degenerate) mopery and dopery amongst the cattle (Ahem! "Citizens".) of the world. This "real-world" example is nothing more than anarchistic posturing by the neo-Luddite out to destroy society!
(Yep. I had to swallow loads of LSD to fully appreciate the publishing industry's view.
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Derek