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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Would you get away with saying "click here to read the free short story that accompanies this book" and have it go to Smashwords or similar? Or just a html version hosted somewhere that didn't have any selling involved? The short story would be included free with the book anyway, but people wouldn't need to know that.
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Quite honestly, I think it's a little unreasonable for you to ask Amazon to act as your free advertising agency. If you want people to read your
free shortie, put it here on MR; put it on Kobo with coupons; put it on Wattpad, put it on Smashwords. All those places get tons of traffic from people looking for free stories. On those sites, you'll get literally thousands of readers. You will, in fact, get more readers looking for freebies on those sites than you EVER will on Amazon, because freebies aren't really the stock-in-trade on Amazon, and neither are individual shorties.
If your point is to sell your story, then list it for money. I admit I do not understand why you seem so determined to find a way to put your story on Amazon when you aren't selling it.
Hitch