I'm curious if anyone has played around with offering their books as free torrents?
I'm a huge fan of torrents as is my wife. She decided to release her first book for free in as many places as possible and we uploaded it to Demonoid, our favorite torrent site.
It's been about a month and we've had 250 downloads. Here's what we've noticed in that month:
- International traffic to the website increased.
- We received a few comments on the torrent, but none about the actual book.
- We sold a few copies of the book from Smashwords from people who downloaded the torrent first.
- The book got uploaded to a few other sites within a week, but we can't track the downloads from those sites so there is no way for us to know how popular it is on them.
Do any of you have any experiences with your work and torrents?