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Originally Posted by jhowell
I found that good number of books by F&SF authors I like have been added to Scribd. They all seem to be the first in a series. I am guessing that they released these to hook readers who will then have to purchase the sequels elsewhere.
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Oddly enough, I thought of doing just that strategy with my books. But I couldn't figure out a very good reason to do it since I get paid if they read the entire series on SCRIBD. I suppose the difference is that if someone likes book 1 well enough they may BUY books 2 and 3 without reading them right away. So if someone loves the Mcmillian books and they were all on SCRIBD and that reader just added the others in the series to the library "to read later," there's no money to be made.
I know that a certain portion of money made in the book world is made by selling books that are not actually ever read so perhaps their strategy is to make sure and lock in both those who buy and read and those who don't.