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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
First, thank you for the heads up on these bargains. The paragraph below is for informational purposes only.
INFORMATION ONLY: These may or may not be a wonderful bargain. Check them out if you find a particular author or subject matter intriguing, but know that every free requested ebook requires your email to each specific author. One could literally be inundated with promotional follow-up emails over an indefinite period of time or until one cancels. This may or may not be a wonderful thing depending upon your temperament.
DISCLOSURE: This is my personal experience with bookfunnel.
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That's my experience, too. Also, a lot of book-related sweepstakes do the same thing. You enter a contest in the desperate hope of winning something like a box of popular hardcovers. Then, you start getting promotional emails from the five or twelve or whatever writers who sponsored it.
Some writers send great newsletters and don't sling them out too often. But many of the authors in book giveaways (and contests) think they have to send their readers an email each day, no matter that. ("I stubbed my toe this morning. BTW buy my book.")
That said, I might peek at that bookfunnel page anyway... But if I see anything that looks really good, it might be less trouble to
buy it.
