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I think I found the mother of all freebies this week.
An indie author had a book up for temporary-free, the blurb made mention of bonus material including two bonus books, so I took the plunge. It being a Kindle-only book, I used Calibre to convert it to EPUB... which took an abnormally long time. Now, since there was no page count on Amazon, I figured this "book" was really a short story, maybe a novella. Oh, no...
The book finished converting, and I opened it in ADE to take a look. Estimated page count: over 3800 - but the navigation only lists the five chapters of the original work. I cracked it open in the Calibre editor to find:
- The advertised two additional books by the same author.
- Nine books by a second author.
- Three additional copies of the nine-book bundle, apparently identical.
- Translations of the first author's three books into three additional languages.
...making four copies each of a dozen different works.
Now, I'm all about giving value for money, but this seems just a little extreme to me. After chopping out the duplicated books and the translations, the five-megabyte book is down to a much thinner 420K. Part of this is due to the removal of an ad page that featured a cover image and the invitation to click a nonexistent link for more information...
I'm almost scared to start reading it now.
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