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Originally Posted by augustjen
John McLean advises to load your digital book to Amazon setting your price, then after a few weeks or so, you offer your book for free. Amazon apparently allows you to drop the price for several days. By offering the book for free, it is hoped the 'word is spread' about your book. This means your book will receive more customer reviews, and more downloads, which pushes your book up to the top in search results.
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I'm guessing that is old advice because that's not the case any more. Amazon changed the way they measure free downloads, they only count as a small fraction of a sale now. So giving away thousands of free copies won't get you onto the bestseller lists like it used to. It won't get you many reviews either because less than 1% of the people who download it will ever get around to reading it.