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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
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!)
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The difficulty I deduced from you. You don't know how to do it. Uncontrolled in the sense that there won't be much indication, other than pure numbers, of who's downloading them and why. Important to some.
"Email me and I'll gift you" was your idea. A simple matter of them trading their email address for the book, which you'd simply attach to your reply. No need to complicate it or go to any expense.
As kacir said, Amazon doesn't like people to offer their books elsewhere for a lower price. Maybe if you couch it as a "special promotional offer?"