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Originally Posted by Richard Herley
llasram, the interim results from my experimental business model may cast some light on this thread. My site has been open for five weeks and so far over 5,000 ebooks have been downloaded. I have received payment for 61. The most charitable gloss I can put on this is that people do not like the books; or perhaps they are all unusually slow readers. In either case it sends me a clear message, which I fully intend to heed, about what I should be doing with my time in future. I salute those honourable few such as yourself, who paid, but you are in a tiny minority.
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Oh, I didn’t realize that you were expecting even the majority of downloads to translate to a payment. I’d just assumed your plan was that you expected to be paid by a smaller percentage of a sufficiently larger readership to turn a net profit vs. a more traditional business model. For that model, I think it will take a longer time for word-of-mouth to get your books out there – even 5,000 downloads is a pretty small percentage of your potential audience. It might help if you had attractive versions of your books in common e-book formats – perhaps the text files are invoking too many associations with Project Gutenberg and the public domain?
Either way, I’m sorry to hear the experiment isn’t working out as you’d hoped.