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The way baen uses free ebooks, is the way I think most book publishers should use the free ebook catagory. Baen will frequently make the first book in a series availble for nothing and then charge for the rest at a rate that allows them to make up for the free cost in the first book and start making a profit off the remainder of the series. For us the customer that methods, also called a loss leader, allows us to see if we like the authors writting style before comitting our hard earned dollars to the rest of the series. I personally like this approach and wish more publishers would adopt it.
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