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Originally Posted by arjaybe
It sounds like "email me and I'll gift you" would be the easiest for you, given the difficulty and uncontrolled nature of making it downloadable.
If you don't want them to be "really" free, such as a Creative Commons license, then be sure to mark them with a copyright notice and all rights reserved.
If they can't figure out how to make use of your gift, then maybe they should be paying for it.-)
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Thanks rjb. "the difficulty and uncontrolled nature of making it downloadable." Could you elaborate on that a touch? I know Hitch has talked about the hassle of
selling ebooks from a website. I suppose having free downloads might present a similar problem. I might be getting irate emails like, "I tried to download the free book and it didn't work!" (Is that the sort of thing you're referring to?)
And the "email me and I'll gift you" part? What would be the best way to gift them? Just send them a .mobi or an .epub? Or gift them (which would cost me money) via Amazon, or use Smashwords coupons, which seems like a hassle, or something else?
And yeah, all the books have a copyright page. And I'm not making them free. I'm just giving them to the people that can't afford them.
And yeah, if the poof schlubs can't figure it out, they should pay! (good thinking!)