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My first book, "Surviving the Fog," did pretty well, and I even made a couple thousand dollars before Amazon discovered that it could be found for free at Smashwords. Since then, the book has been downloaded about 45,000 times as a free book, mostly to good reviews.
Since then, I have not had a lot of sales at all, and this is after publishing five more books. I think that one of the reasons is that there are so many more ebooks out there now. Surviving the Fog was published in 2009, and that was close to the beginning of the ebook revolution. I would suggest that new authors make their first book free so that they can get name recognition, but I'm not sure that has worked for me.
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