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Originally Posted by arjaybe
[...]I'm giving my work away. That's the thing that most people have trouble with. How can I put all that work into it, and then not try to "monetize" it? In some cases I get the sense that they think there's something wrong with me, or that it's some kind of trick. Very often they think there must be something wrong with the book. If it's free, then it can't be worth anything, right?[...]
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The money thing is rather odd. Yes, there are many who will say that if it's free it can't be any good. And there are those that advise that you shouldn't sell yourself short. But then there are those who firmly believe that giving away at least your early work is the only way find the readers. It's been a while since I've seen Vincent (vyderscope) on here, but his experience made him a believer of this method ... and my experience does not contradict him.
So I don't don't see anything wrong or peculiar with deciding to give away your work. The means of giving it away is something else, and we all have our differences - hence you chose Creative Commons, where I would not.