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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Word of mouth only works when you have (a few) readers. Getting those first readers would be the tricky part. The traditional way would be to send out review copies, but then you would be gambling everything on the thoughts of a few individuals. Books, like other entertainment products, are a matter of taste. And with ebooks you can give away a large free sample for people to make their own minds up about. So it would make more sense to me to concentrate on that rather than go down the review route.
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I'd combine them, offer the complete book for review to more than a handful of people. If the book is really of stunning quality it will, word of mouth will, without doubt be sufficient to get the book known to the greater public.