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Originally Posted by G J Lau
The solution most writers go to--and one which Amazon has now institutionalized--is to offer one or more of their works for free, hoping to attract readers. But as Ewan Morrison points out in his article, free isn't a good long-run business model. I'm learning that the hard way on KDP Select, but that's another story.
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I don't know if free is much of a promotional tool either. You'll get lots of people downloading it, which will shunt you up the bestseller list a little bit and get you onto lots of "people also bought" lists. But it's all just random other free stuff they've downloaded, not the ones you would actually want to be on to attract future buyers.
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Originally Posted by G J Lau
Another problem is that the get-rich-quick writers may abandon their efforts, but their fast and furiously self-published material could remain forever, orbiting the publishing world like space junk. Will this huge glut pass through the system or will it remain in Amazon's and other e-book distributor's catalogs in perpetuity, a permanent ocean of tear drops? Do the big boys periodically weed out under-performers? How about over-performing drek?
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They will be there forever because there would be nothing to be gained by removing them, but after they realise they're just wasting their time they will stop adding more to the pile.