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dedicated · 03-12-2009, 04:26 PM

Ok, I emailed Seth Godin and got a lightning fast response:

"because having my ebook on 300,000 kindles is different than giving my book to 1,000 people who might take it from my site

part of the power here is mass"

I see his point, people who were going to buy his books anyways may end up downloading it for free and he'd lose out on a sale. So his point being authors are willing to sacrifice some revenue in exchange for mass distribution.

03-12-2009, 04:26 PM	#9
dedicated Member Posts: 34 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA Device: Sony PRS-500, Kindle DX	Ok, I emailed Seth Godin and got a lightning fast response: "because having my ebook on 300,000 kindles is different than giving my book to 1,000 people who might take it from my site part of the power here is mass" I see his point, people who were going to buy his books anyways may end up downloading it for free and he'd lose out on a sale. So his point being authors are willing to sacrifice some revenue in exchange for mass distribution.