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Originally Posted by kennyc
My experience has been that many are willing to accept a free book but as far as I can tell in my case it's done nothing to help sell or get the word out. I'm also sure the devil is in the details and it all depends on how you approach/use it.
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When my book first went free - around 20k copies were slammed down in a very short period of time. I wish I had had the book edited before that happened, but eh, such is life.
As far as I know I saw
very little turn over in to sales from that.
Of those 20k, I have no idea how many actually read the book or etc. Since that time (my book as been free for a couple years now) I am pretty steady in the 10-15:1 ratio between free and sales of my other books. I am sure that having 1 book
permanently free has drastically impacted my chances of success.
The few limited free days of the Amazon program being discussed here is different. I am not sure if would help at all. So many download free books and never read them, especially if they know the free period is limited.