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Thanks so much, skreutzer. Are you a teacher? Because if not, you could be. I know so much more about servers and uploading and all kinds of things after reading your post. And thanks so much for your very generous offer to help me. I'm sure the technical challenges could be worked out (eventually!), but what's holding me back now is Amazon's "price mathching." And if I offer all of my books for free (to people who can't afford them), then Amazon is going to make all of my books free.
I'm not entirely new to having a book free on Amazon. Last year, I had one "perma-free" there and it got about 2,000 downloads. But with the much smaller exposure I would get just from my website and tweeting I don't anticipate any huge number of requests for free books now. (And if there was, I would be okay with that.) I'm just trying to avoid needless hassles. I'd love to do this free-if-you-need-it thing, but not if it's going to be excessively time consumptive or a huge hassle (say with Amazon making all the books free, or, with people struggling with getting the free books and inundating me with emails asking for clarification on how to get the books).
Right now I'm just letting the process evolve. Thank you again. You have given me much to think about, and I really do appreciate all your help.
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