DuskyRose, you need not direct your questions at me. The author of the article is a member of this fine forum.
Though I do think his research shows that you are wrong when you say that its incorrect to say that Amazon offers more freebies than the others.
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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
If I find a book free at Amazon, odds are it's free elsewhere if it's on offer at the other stores as well. And if it's not free at the other site at the same time, I find that it will be soon. So a lot, if not most, freebies aren't limited to Amazon at all.
I think you're assuming that it's Amazon who's making the decision to offer a book for free, rather than the author or the publisher. If it's from one of the Agency Six, then they're certainly deciding that for themselves. I don't see why other authors wouldn't do that as well if they think it's in their best interest in order to build up a fan base and advertise their own work.
I haven't seen anything anywhere that suggests that Amazon is the one choosing the freebies to offer and then paying the author for each download anyway. Which is what they'd have to do to make the book a "loss leader".
What evidence do you have that the freebies actually are Amazon's decisions to make, and that they're losing money on them?
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