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Originally Posted by 4691mls
First-in-series free must work as a sales tactic or they wouldn't keep doing it. I've occasionally read a library book where the library doesn't have the whole series and then I bought the later books. Not sure if I've gotten a first-free from a store.
Seems like there's nothing to lose by trying, if you don't like the first one you don't have to waste money on the rest.
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Originally Posted by crossi
A good strategy for authors, and the larger the series, the better the strategy. Give one book free and maybe get twenty sales of the rest of the series.
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I have purchased more of a series after a particularly good free opener.
(On the other hand, a particularly poor free opener has put some authors on my internal "don't bother" list.)