[Gregg Bell]

I want to put something on my website like: 'if you can't afford to buy an ebook, please email me and I'll gift you one.'

In my researching this question, I found I can just email them a .mobi or .epub (saving me from paying for it--which is nice) and then they can sideload the files to their ereaders. Granted not everybody with a kindle may know how to sideload.

Someone else suggested uploading the .epub and .mobi files to my website and just saying people could download them for free.

I don't know how to do the uploading of the files. I don't know if it's even possible (the uploading and then subsequent downloading by visitors to my site). Is it?

And does anybody have any general ideas on how to go about this? I want to make the process as simple for the reader and for myself as possible.

Someone suggested collecting the email addresses via Mailchimp, but although that would be nice, I don't see that as a key consideration at this point.

Any ideas?