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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Short stories tend to make better advertising freebies, especially if you can write one containing characters from one of your full length offerings. They are more likely to be read than anything else because they are easier to slip in soon after download.
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Just be aware that there are plenty of readers, like myself, who do not like short stories and never read them.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
If you look on Goodreads you'll see people with TBR lists thousands of books long. A full length free book will just join that queue and never be read. . . . Both worth doing, but they won't lead to increased sales of your other books.
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I'm not on Goodreads but I am a downloader of free ebooks that interest me and I admit my TBR pile grows. However, my reading mood changes regularly and so there is no way to know where a particular book really stands in the queue.
As for leading to sales, I think a free ebook can definitely do that. Just a couple of days ago, I finished reading Rebecca Forster's
Hostile Witness, which was a freebie (available at Smashwords and B&N) that had been in my TBR pile for 6 months. It is also the first book in the series. No sooner did I finish reading the book than I went online and bought her 3 other ebooks in the series --
Silent Witness, Privileged Witness, and
Expert Witness -- at $3.99 each. If the freebie hadn't been offered, I never would have looked at her ebooks and would not have bought her other 3 books. Had she offered only a free short story, I never would have found her either.