Thread: Konrath looks to 2014
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Old 12-30-2013, 01:09 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by latepaul View Post
I'm intrigued by this. On the basis that there's nothing new under the sun I'm going to guess it's one of:
  • first in series free as loss-leader (but organized/collected by KonrathCorp)
  • a form of subscription (i.e. not really "free" but it feels like it for any given ebook)
  • ad-supported (i.e. not really free)
  • kick-starter for books where the proceeds go in part to maintain an archive of free ebooks.
  • something else... (but it won't really be free)
I think that some self published athors have had a lot of success with giving away the first book in the series with the hope people will buy the others, so that might be the angle. It has worked well for Baen to give away back catalog e-books.
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