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Originally Posted by vondanmcintyre
What formats do folks want? I have room for some others on my website. I have the Epub converter as well as the Mobipocket one. But I've been spending most of my time making the texts at BVC presentable.
I'm testing the hypothesis that making a book available in electronic format helps the sales of the print edition. Since pretty much all the mint copies of Moon & Sun that remain (not defaced with remainder marks) are in my hands, I'm in a pretty good position to test it.
Vonda
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My own download logs suggest that after PDF, Mobi (prc) is the most popular, followed by RTF and eReader (pdb), then Sony (lrf), then Microsoft (lit) and epub. People seem to think that epub will be increasing, though, as more devices recognize it. In fact, since the Sony Reader now accepts epub, Tor has stopped doing lrf for their free downloads and is supplying epub in its place.
Re your test, since I'm doing the same test
, let me poke a little at your methodology. If you start getting orders privately, that's great. But a lot of people might not want to do that, for one reason or another, and might seek copies elsewhere (including used copies). So a negative result on private orders wouldn't necessarily mean you aren't succeeding. And of course some of the benefit could be long term--drawing people to your work generally, so they'll be future buyers.
I'm presently doing the "new book" test, with free PDF, so that will test a somewhat different scenario. But as we all know, it could be a long time before any meaningful sales information comes to light. (Plus, of course, there's the economy to factor in...)