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Back in the day, I picked up a lot of free first in series books, but they were all tradpubbed. It wouldn’t work for me as a come-on for an indie series, where I think Sturgeon’s law is too generous.
I’m generalizing, but I think there’s an aspect of people valuing paid-for books more and there are so many freebies out there that clicking on yet one more only adds to the eclutter of books that will never be read. Many here got over free books for just that reason. Moreover, I think it’s a tired strategy; it worked for Hugh Howey but too many try it now for it to be effective. There’s still the problem of differentiating a series from all the other free first book indie series out there.
Admittedly, I’m not in the market for that kind of book anyway.
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