Actually, it may have hurt sales in more ways than you think. I downloaded significantly more than 30 titles from Smashwords with the 100% off coupon code and have already deleted 10 titles as not worth reading, which means that I won't be buying other books written by their authors. These were books and authors that had interested me based on their description and the reading of a few sample pages, but once I really started reading them, I discovered they were poorly written and clearly not edited. I suspect that others will have similar experiences.
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