Thread: Seth Godin's Kindle Ideas
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Old 03-12-2009, 06:04 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by dedicated View Post
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.
Wouldn't the point be to find new readers (customers)? I became a fan of Cherie Priest because TOR gave away one of her books as an ebook last summer. So far the rest of her books are only available in paper. If they were available as ebooks, I would have purchased them already.
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