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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Trenien, although you obviously are a fan of free products that generate paying buzz, you yourself are missing an important point: If it's free for the first person, and he can just e-mail the file to people he recommends it to, why will the others pay? If your product is free for one, everyone will want it to be free, and you just gave it away. (You want to help an author: Tell others about it, but don't give away your free copy. Tell them where to buy one. If the price isn't exorbitant, they probably will.)
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You misunderstood my point. It's not about being a fan of that method, it's just that I feel it's the only one that really gives an author a shot at earning a living through writing in the digital age that's just begun. Be it legal or from darknet, there's more and more content available for free.
As people get more and more savvy with computers and the associated devices, you'll need to offer something more than just the ebook file to compete with (in your case) it's illegal version off of darknet. In the case of pbook, that's easy, the premium you get from paying is having your own hardcopy.
It gets trickier in your case where the ebook is the only product. Sure, you get a nice secondary income, but I'm a bit doubtful about it graduating from there (I may be wrong, good for you if that's the case).
As for the case of giving out a copy of an ebook. Sure, it may mean one lost sale, but it also my mean that second guy will go over to your site (if properly written down in the ebook) and buy a few others, whereas the same person receiving an advice to read your book may never get around to do it.