Thread: Why do some authors not offer a sample?
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Old 03-04-2011, 04:24 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Just4kix View Post
I was under the impression that Kindle books automatically allowed readers to sample the book.
Yep, Amazon automatically provides the first 10% of an ebook as a free sample - you don't have to do anything to create it, or say "yes, please allow customers to sample my book".

Useful point to bear in mind, though, regarding how Amazon calculates that 10% - it's based on bytes, not text content. So if you have a cover image embedded in the content as the first page of the book (as opposed to just a "logical" cover specified in the OPF file), then the byte size of the cover image will form part of that 10%, which can result in not a lot of actual book content being available in the free sample.
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