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Duckie,
My problem is not particularly the free part. It is redundant and tells me absolutely nothing about the book. That line from Amazon is right above the blurb, so why is the author wasting words.
To me, if I am looking for a book, I want to know about the book not pricing in the blurb.
As a reader, I am perfectly capable of looking in the price box.
To me, stuff like that is one talking down to potential readers and two says that they are more wanting borrowers than actual buyers.
That to me says that because I don't give Amazon $10 then I am not their audience.
Rather like Bear's comment about the countdown not being real visible.
I doubt he meant that statement the way it came across. It came across as readers don't look at the price box. We just click blindly. Most readers I know have limited budgets. Actually I like it better in the price box because I am more likely going to see it if I am running a bit short of my very limited book budget.
In case you are curious my ebook budget is half of what KU would be.
Oh and little secret, I know most KU books will either be free or 99 cents at some point so still very little risk.
I just think putting free in Kindle Unlimited at the beginning of a blurb is a waste of my reading time. Tell me about the book itself.
Yes I did do the free trial of KU. I really couldn't find much there.
Or more precisely, I just waited and watched the books I wanted till they went free.
Oh while we are on that subject, I love authors that put their entire catalog free. I would also tell same said authors don't do that because there are readers that will wait for a book to go free and it might cost them major money.
I know one author that puts his new book to 99 cents on release day. Not sure how smart that is either.
Yes, I take advantage or did. I probably won't waste 99 cents on the next one. The last one was awful.
Hope this clears things up.
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