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Originally Posted by ATDrake
In this particular case, I think it's because B&N just announced this on their Nook blog as one of the two "Free Friday" books, even though this one's been free for a while.
As for the dupes, I think it might have to do with Inkmesh and eBooks AddAll being glitchy and possibly relisting books as "new" freebies each time the price changes in another store, so people following them via Twitter or RSS or the like get the announcements and think it's something that hasn't been posted yet.
Not to mention, plenty of people never bother to read the manual, much less any posting guidelines or check past the first page of a forum (sometimes not even scrolling down), so they'll likely start new threads instead of bumping up old ones if they don't see it right away.
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I think all of those contribute. Don't forget "don't bother to try the search function" on your list of why they keep duplicating threads.
For newbies who think they are being picked on ... generally, we try to have one thread per title for the free books. In that thread, add any additional stores or formats if a book becomes free somewhere other than the original. If there is only a single platform/store with the book free, add that to the title "Free book (Kindle) -- title", for example; if it later becomes free in other places, add your info to the end of the thread and send a moderator a private message asking for the title to be updated.
Please include the genre in the main body of your posting, if not readily apparent from the description, especially if it is Christian Fiction or from a "Christian publisher". Failure to follow this rule generally results in long debates over the value of the book and the sneakiness of Christian publishers in offering free books (that may or may not contain a message).
If you notice any geographic restrictions on a title, you can add those to the post as well; otherwise, either note which country you are in in the post (or add it to your profile, so it always shows) -- failure to follow this "rule" generally results in many people posting that they can't buy the book, some of them quite vocally calling for lynching of anyone daring to post a free book that they then found that they could not access.