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Originally Posted by starrigger
An ebook of Sunborn would be more than anything else promotion for the print edition. If I had an easy way to offer the ebook for sale at a reasonable price, I'd probably do that. But I don't. I'm not going to build a shopping cart on my web site, at this point. I could offer it through Amazon's Kindle program, but that's just one format. All the ways I can think of to sell it would involve either long delays or major hassles.
Same problem with offering a few chapters and click-to-buy. I wouldn't begin to know how to implement that.
The shareware model, however flawed, may be the only practical approach.
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Shop it to Baen as an e-Book. Heck, shop your entire back-list to them. I'd probably buy them all. They've got the infrastructure. They have loyal customers -- a decent-sized customer base. They say that e-Sales run a noticeable fraction of paper these days (20% or so sticks in my mind, but that may be wrong). I don't know how backlist stuff does in comparison, but it seems to do at least well enough for them to keep coming out with e-Editions of "good old stuff."
Xenophon