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Originally Posted by athlonkmf
If you first give out free ebooks, and people actually get their own ereader. You will have more chance of selling ebooks later.
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Baen has the free book thing right for the most part. Example: When I first wanted to try out David Weber's Honor Harrington series I was able to try the first 2 in the series for free & ended up buying those two & all the rest, including anthologies. I bought the dead tree editions as I had only a PDA as a reader at the time & that's never been an ideal reader for me. Now, I'm sure everyone who might try the series may not like it but maybe that's made up for in more people willing to try it out (since the first 2 are free) & end up liking it.
Free ebooks are similar to when publishers sell pb's of early books in a series for $4 instead of $8 to generate sales of the later books.