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Originally Posted by MartinC
I'd be interested to know what you base this on. I've never come across anyone who had the faintest idea whether their free downloads were read or not. Some hard evidence one way or the other would be very helpful.
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If you wanted to you could put a web-bug in it somewhere, then you would know if they opened it on their computer or not.
I've downloaded lots of free ebooks from Amazon (and elsewhere
), I'd say I've read about 1% of them at best. I'm more likely to read something free if it is short, simply because it's easier to fit in while I'm in the middle of something else. Reading something for free is also the only way anyone new would make it onto my buying list, so it's certainly worth using as a promotional tool.
When I pay for them, even if it's only 70p or whatever, the reading rate goes up to about 75%. The paid ones I don't read are usually ones I buy at the same time as something else and then another book comes along before I get to read it and jumps its place.