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Originally Posted by HarryT
How do you know that "hundreds of people are reading your book"? Hundreds of people may have downloaded it, but downloads certainly don't equate to readers.
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I have discovered this. I gave away my short stories for free to build up a readership, several thousand people downloaded each one. I put my book online and in about the same amount of time the first thousand took to download two of the short stories about 44 people have downloaded the sample and 4 people have downloaded it for free; one was a reviewer and the other three were troops on active service - I did operation e-book drop. I didn't use feedbooks though, and I probably should have put my teaser excerpt on there, with links... and on amazon directly, maybe, rather than through smashwords!
I did wonder but even with my no-time, slow burn strategy, I thought I'd sell a few more... correction some e-books. Just goes to show, hey.
The thing is, I was tempted to give away my novel for free but if I do that, I'll never know if I have any real readers. The first third is kind of a story, in itself, so I'm giving that away and if people want to read more, they can. Interestingly all the reviews so far have been rave. Two, Amazon and Smashwords, both five stars. It's my first book though, so we'll see...
cheers
MTM